[ROCKMAN]

Agent - Interesting...thanks. Any word on the amount of convirmed gold China has?

[Outcast_Searcher]

As usual, this is a non-issue. With liquid foreign exchange markets trading roughly $5 trillion in currency value a day, you can hold your money in Yuan or any other major currency all you want. Then you can trade to whatever currency you need to buy oil a second or a minute before you buy the oil.

Same thing with the petrodollar. There is an accounting issue and an on-the-books issue.

But if you would rather hold Euros, or Yen, or Yuan, or whatever, unless the foreign exchange markets go away or become unreliable, the whole currency meme is at most, a MINOR inconvenience for any competent entity with financial means.

The fact that this keeps being reported and commented on as a significant issue, IMO, tells me how much attention we should pay to the vast majority of the armchair economic forecasting that goes on via the internet, via bloggers and comment websites.

Note -- I'm not forecasting anything here -- I'm simply pointing out a huge and obvious market and mechanism that essentially makes the whole risk of holding currency "X" over time disappear via endless convenient hedging choices.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', 'N')ote -- I'm not forecasting anything here -- I'm simply pointing out a huge and obvious market and mechanism that essentially makes the whole risk of holding currency "X" over time disappear via endless convenient hedging choices.

[ROCKMAN]

Agent - Posted a response that hasn't shown up. But if the numbers are to be believed China increased gold reserves almost 60% in just a couple of months in early 2015 compared to 4Q 2014. And then 80% higher then 4Q 2014 by 2016. Interesting they started buying as prices were falling. Until they had bought so much: by 2016 about a 20% increase in price. And prices still high now.

Regardless of its plan to back its currency China's buying spree made them a very nice profit.

[AgentR11]

it occurs to me that this isn't the traditional notion of "backing a currency with gold". The exchanges sell gold in Yuan in China; but 1 Yuan is not meant to be equal to some fixed amount of gold; but rather the market sets the price on the exchange. So if you wanted to end up with gold, you'd sell your oil in Yuan, and then immediately buy the gold contract; but if you held your Yuan, it would be worth a different amount of gold day by day as the price of gold changed over time.

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out into next year, and to see how committed they are to the idea of wanting BRICS free of dollar coercion.

[dissident]

Bit talk about Uncle Scam being able to corner Russia with sanctions. Uncle Scumbag better be prepared for 7 million barrels of oil per day coming off the market if he tries to push too far. That will screw him and his minions so hard they won't know what hit them. In case it is not clear, Russia can deal with the loss of oil and gas exports (which are less than 8% of its GDP). Russia recently paid down $220 billion of its dollar foreign debt over a couple of years. That amounts to -7.4% per year GDP growth in both years. The reason that Russia's GDP is not down 15% is because of import substitution.

NATO pundit morons look at Russia's export profile to evaluate its economic diversification. These retards somehow miss that Russia has one of the smallest import levels of any country. But logical deductions are too hard for irrational, foaming at the mouth haters.

https://www.awaragroup.com/blog/russian ... s-warfare/

[Cog]

Russia doesn't even qualify as a first world country. They are a blip on the world economic stage. Without their oil exports, they starve. The state of New York has a larger GDP than the entire country of Russia. Russia has nukes which is the only reason we let them sit at the same table as the USA.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'W')ithout their oil exports, they starve.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', 'N')ote -- I'm not forecasting anything here -- I'm simply pointing out a huge and obvious market and mechanism that essentially makes the whole risk of holding currency "X" over time disappear via endless convenient hedging choices.

[Yoshua]

China seems to try to establish it self as the trading hub in Asia where everything can be traded in yuan. China has to offer the possibility to change the yuan into gold since the yuan isn't fully convertible currency.

I see it as part of their New Silk Road project, that is ment to connect the Eurasian continent with fast speed rail and a maritime silk road that will connect all the ports on the Eurasian continent.

Russia has been saying that they are not strong enough to be a global power, but that they are strong enough to choose who will be the global power. The Russian foreign minister said about the comming world order that " If you wish, you can call it the Post Western World Order".

Now...maybe they are a bit over ambitious. Or perhaps they just see this as plan B when the American "empire" implodes.

[Cog]

Russia's actual ability to influence events always falls short of their claims to do so. China has its own special demographic and oil supply problems. I'll stick with the USA as the premier super-power for the remainder of the century.

[Yoshua]

I still wonder what would happen to the dollar if it's disconnected from oil. Would the dollar be massively devalued? Would the US economy experience hyper inflation? Would the Etp Models MAP be blown away? Would it cause massive financial disruptions around the world? Would the US economy tank?

I wonder if Russia and China really know what they are doing?

Jim Rickards calls China a communist nation that is playing with capitalism. He compares China to a 3 year old with a loaded gun: There will be some damage!

[Cog]

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[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Yoshua', 'I') still wonder what would happen to the dollar if it's disconnected from oil. Would the dollar be massively devalued? Would the US economy experience hyper inflation? Would the Etp Models MAP be blown away? Would it cause massive financial disruptions around the world? Would the US economy tank?

I wonder if Russia and China really know what they are doing?

Jim Rickards calls China a communist nation that is playing with capitalism. He compares China to a 3 year old with a loaded gun: There will be some damage!

[Yoshua]

Jim Rickards is a finance expert. He was invited by the Pentagon to take part in financial war games. He took the side of Russia and China. He created a currency backed by gold and sold Russian oil only in that currency. He won the war.

About this yuan oil gold deal he commented: RIP Petrodollar.

[Yoshua]

This graph shows a trader's DEATH CROSS, a crossing of the 50 month moving average below the 200 month moving average for the very first time in history!

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4375/3695 ... 86c4_b.jpg

[Yoshua]

The Petrodollar might be dead anyway. There is perhaps just too much stress to a currency that is linked to an energy source which value is is falling like a stone.

Chinas attempt to link oil to the yuan might do in the Chinese miracle economy?

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Yoshua', 'C')hinas attempt to link oil to the yuan might do in the Chinese miracle economy?

[Yoshua]

The value of the yuan would be torn between the falling value of oil and the value of gold which is based on psychology. The Chinese currency manipulators would have added more complexity to the yuan.

China would on one hand have the ability to print yuan to buy oil, but on the other, since China is an exporting nation, the deal might increase their trade.

To be honest, I don't have clue what I'm talking about.

But, sure, the oil yuan gold deal might add to China's security since they own the yuan and would not be as dependent on the dollar, the dollar manipulators and the US government.