Signifyin(g)Monkey Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 We live in interesting times. Optimists: this changes very little. Doomers and Goldbugs: This is the beginning of the end of the dollar as the world reserve currency and the final nail in the coffin of America’s financial superimperialism. Me? I’m grilling burgers and brats for dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 @Signifyin(g)Monkey - I hate to rain on your grilling parade, but there is no evidence that such an arrangement ever existed to begin with Is Saudi Arabia about to drop the petrodollar for Chinese yuan? WWW.NEWARAB.COM Saudi Arabia is rumoured to be dropping the US dollar for the Chinese yuan, but are the reports correct? Quote BRICS News reported that a 1974 agreement between Washington and Riyadh had now expired with Saudi Arabia preparing to sell its oil in multiple currencies. "Saudi Arabia's 50-year-old petrodollar agreement with the United States has expired, with no new agreement in place," BRICS News tweeted. "Saudi Arabia will now sell oil in multiple currencies, including the Chinese RMB, Euros, Yen, and Yuan, instead ofexclusively in US dollars." Many oil watchers reported this as a major shift in global energy trade and in economic power from the US to emerging countries in the Global South. Quote The problem is that no-such oil pact between Saudi Arabia and the US ever existed, at least not formally. "As much as I'd like to believe this to be true, this 50-year expiry date on a petrodollar agreement is, as far as I can see and after quite a bit of research, purely made up," pointed out energy watcher Arnaud Bertrand. While the US and Saudi Arabia did hold talks in 1974 on ending a Riyadh-led oil embargo on allies of Israel, including Washington, there is no evidence that an official pact with a 50-year lifetime exists. The source of this story is the "BRICS News" Xwitter account which - according to Arnaud Bertrand - just makes stuff up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signifyin(g)Monkey Posted June 14 Author Share Posted June 14 2 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: @Signifyin(g)Monkey - I hate to rain on your grilling parade, but there is no evidence that such an arrangement ever existed to begin with Is Saudi Arabia about to drop the petrodollar for Chinese yuan? WWW.NEWARAB.COM Saudi Arabia is rumoured to be dropping the US dollar for the Chinese yuan, but are the reports correct? The source of this story is the "BRICS News" Xwitter account which - according to Arnaud Bertrand - just makes stuff up. Yep. Should have waited for info from other outlets before sounding the alarm. ITT: *What it feels like to have fake news kill your economics boner* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air_Delivery Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 The Yuan will never be used as a global currency until they allow it to float. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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