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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Tue Jun 16, 2020, 03:16 PM Jun 2020

'The dollar is going to fall very, very sharply,' warns prominent Yale economist

Stephen Roach, Yale University senior fellow and former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman, has a warning for U.S. dollar bulls. The prominent economist says that the era of the U.S. buck may be coming to an end and is forecasting a 35% decline soon in the U.S. currency against its major rivals, citing increases in the nation’s deficit and dwindling savings.

The lecturer said during CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Monday that the rise of China and the decoupling of the U.S. from its trade partners is setting the stage for a dramatic weakening of the U.S. currency in the next few years that is likely to end the supremacy of the monetary unit as the world’s reserve currency.

“The dollar is going to fall very, very sharply,” he told the business network.

Roach’s comments follow similarly themed op-ed that he wrote in Bloomberg last week, in which he specifically declared that the “era of the U.S. dollar’s ‘exorbitant privilege’ as the world’s primary reserve currency is coming to an end.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-dollar-is-going-to-fall-very-very-sharply-warns-prominent-yale-economist-2020-06-16

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'The dollar is going to fall very, very sharply,' warns prominent Yale economist (Original Post) Zorro Jun 2020 OP
How can that be? Trump has a degree from Wharton! Jim__ Jun 2020 #1
"In the next few years" means Biden will be blamed. AJT Jun 2020 #2
Biden can warn about it now soothsayer Jun 2020 #5
I don't understand why it hasn't yet soothsayer Jun 2020 #3
China is dumping Wellstone ruled Jun 2020 #4
Kick dalton99a Jun 2020 #6

AJT

(5,240 posts)
2. "In the next few years" means Biden will be blamed.
Tue Jun 16, 2020, 04:02 PM
Jun 2020

It won't matter that 45 caused the collapse. The person holding the office at the time will be blamed.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
4. China is dumping
Tue Jun 16, 2020, 04:42 PM
Jun 2020

Dollar related US investments. China is unloading US Treasuries as well.

My guess is,we are on the edge of another major downward plunge of our Markets and the next round of mega lay offs are coming.

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