Mondialisation: l'hécatombe du billet vert

Pour quec'chose de passablement différent, un article choc de Global Research laisse songeur: Doomsday for the Greenback. Des fragments d'intérêt:

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The American people are in La-la land. If they had any idea of what the Federal Reserve was up to they’d be out on the streets waving fists and pitchforks. Instead, we go our business like nothing is wrong.

Are we really that stupid?

What is it that people don’t understand about the trade deficit? It’s not rocket science. The Current Account Deficit is over 800 billion a year. That means that we are spending more than we are making and savaging the dollar in the process. Presently, we need more than billion of foreign investment per day just to keep the wheels from coming off the cart.

Everyone agrees that the current trade imbalances are unsustainable and will probably trigger major economic disruptions that will thrust us towards a global recession. Still, Washington and the Fed stubbornly resist any change in policy that might reduce over-consumption or reverse present trends.

It’s madness.

The investor class loves big deficits because they provide cheap credit for Bush’s lavish tax cuts and war. The recycling of dollars into US Treasuries and dollar-based securities is a neat way of covering government expenses and propping up the stock market with foreign cash. It’s a “win-win” situation for political elites and Wall Street. For the rest of us it’s a dead-loss.

The trade deficit puts downward pressure on the dollar and acts as a hidden tax. In fact, that’s what it is--a tax! Every day the deficit grows, more money is stolen from the retirements and life savings of working class Americans. It’s an inflation bombshell obscured by the bland rhetoric of “free markets” and deregulation.

Consider this: In 2002 the euro was .87 on the dollar. Last Friday (4-6-07) it closed at 1.34-- a better than 50% gain for the euro in just 4 years. The same is true of gold. In April 2000, gold was selling for 279$ per ounce. Last Friday, at the close of the market it skyrocketed to 679.50$---more than double the price.

Gold isn’t going up; it’s simply a meter on the waning value of the dollar. The reality is that the dollar is tanking big-time, and the main culprit is the widening trade deficit.

The demolition of the dollar isn’t accidental. It’s part of a plan to shift wealth from one class to another and concentrate political power in the hands of a permanent ruling elite. There’s nothing particularly new about this and Bush and Greenspan have done nothing to conceal what they are doing. The massive expansion of the Federal government, the unfunded tax cuts, the low interest rates and the steep increases in the money supply have all been carried out in full-view of the American people. Nothing has been hidden. Neither the administration nor the Fed seem to care whether or not we know that we’re getting screwed --it’s just our tough luck. What they care about is the trillion in wealth that has been transferred from wage slaves and pensioners to brandy-drooling plutocrats like Greenspan and his n’er-do-well friend, Bush.

D'accord. Mais c'est quoi l'impact sur la francophonie en milieu minoritaire??? Nos groupes d'intérêt sont quand même pas si pire après tout! Non mais, le Canard croit que que si vous pensez que c'est difficile de s'intéresser à la francophonie présentement, que pensez-vous que ça sera quand le déclin du dollar US se précipitera? Et en temps de crise, n'est-il pas préférable d'avoir des réseaux communautaires plus fonctionnels, de la solidarité, et les belles "valeurs" d'antant?

Le Canard Economiste "doumesdé"