2015-08-23 Why It Really All Comes Down To The Death Of The Petrodollar
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/23/2015 - 09:59
Last week, in the global currency war’s latest escalation, Kazakhstan instituted a free float for the tenge causing the currency to immediately plunge by some 25%. The rationale behind the move was clear enough. What might not be as clear is how recent events in developing economy FX markets stem from a seismic shift we began discussing late last year - namely, the death of the petrodollar system which has served to underwrite decades of dollar dominance and was, until recently, a fixture of the post-war global economic order.
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/23/2015 - 09:59
Last week, in the global currency war’s latest escalation, Kazakhstan instituted a free float for the tenge causing the currency to immediately plunge by some 25%. The rationale behind the move was clear enough. What might not be as clear is how recent events in developing economy FX markets stem from a seismic shift we began discussing late last year - namely, the death of the petrodollar system which has served to underwrite decades of dollar dominance and was, until recently, a fixture of the post-war global economic order.
Last
week, in the global currency war’s latest escalation, Kazakhstan
instituted a free float for the tenge causing the currency to
immediately plunge by some 25%. The...
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