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The potential collapse of the US dollar

Absentglare

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We are seeing foreign investors pull away from Trump’s unstable economic destruction. The result is that they need to raise interest rates on treasury bonds in order to find investors in order to fund our government. Mortgage interest rates are already up to 7%.

Markets are losing confidence in the US dollar. The petrodollar has helped ensure that there is a steady demand for the US dollar.

We are losing the financial confidence of the international community. The result is very likely the impending collapse of the US dollar thanks to Trump.

We have the ability to consume excess shares of the worldwide economy, to deficit spend without suffering hyperinflation, and we do not understand or appreciate how good we have it.

So WHY is Trump destroying this system?


If US exports were more competitive, that wouldn’t help you, your income will not change, but it would help your boss. If US imports were more expensive, that would hurt you, it would cut directly into your purchasing power.

They want to use the ensuing financial chaos to eliminate the social safety net and turn the US into a shithole sweat shop. This is their plan to do it. Don’t be surprised to find out that America’s enemies in China and Russia have their fingers all over these plans.
 
There's nothing wrong with the US dollar other than we sold trillions of T-bills to China and now they're dumping them because they're desperate for those very 'despised' US dollars to prop up their own currency to keep it from going into free-fall.
 
Absentglare said:
If US exports were more competitive, that wouldn’t help you, your income will not change, but it would help your boss.
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No, it helps a small number of workers, which is why the UAW and teamsters support Trump's tariffs.

Absentglare said:
If US imports were more expensive, that would hurt you, it would cut directly into your purchasing power.
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It hurts everyone, because every man, woman, and child is a consumer.


Nobody wants that shit. If the "safety net" were such a great idea you wouldn't have to force people to pay for it.
 
You will have to react QUICKLY to push these "The Sky is Falling" foolish lies by the Left/Media !

Trump is hitting hard against Nations who are taking advantage of America ! He's doing the right thing for America.
 
It's been floundering in a profitable way for some time now.
 
dmpi said:
There's nothing wrong with the US dollar other than we sold trillions of T-bills to China and now they're dumping them because they're desperate for those very 'despised' US dollars to prop up their own currency to keep it from going into free-fall.
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Selling dollar securities to China was a way of borrowing from that country. China is on of the top lenders to the USA.

5 Foreign Countries That Own the Most U.S. Debt

The list of names and amounts of U.S. debt held by the five foreign countries that own the most and why.
www.investopedia.com
 
NoMoreDems-Reps said:
You will have to react QUICKLY to push these "The Sky is Falling" foolish lies by the Left/Media !

Trump is hitting hard against Nations who are taking advantage of America ! He's doing the right thing for America.
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If what trump is doing is so great, how come basically the whole world is reacting in a negative manner?
 
Simon W. Moon said:
the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy™ invented COVID just to make Trump look bad, iirc
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Well of course you remember correctly and the dems even gave it to trump himself just to prove it was all a hoax. The best part, trump went along with the hoax and even fooled his base into believe it was nothing more than the common cold.
 
dmpi said:
There's nothing wrong with the US dollar other than we sold trillions of T-bills to China and now they're dumping them because they're desperate for those very 'despised' US dollars to prop up their own currency to keep it from going into free-fall.
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It was Japan that was dumping the most. There is a problem with your dollar and your treasuries but believe what you want or rather what you are told to believe.
 
Absentglare said:
Don’t be surprised to find out that America’s enemies in China and Russia have their fingers all over these plans.
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A delightful American trait... The American shat in his pants and is sure that the Russians are to blame for this.
 
KevinKohler said:
Why?
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Why wont they be good paying union jobs? If those industries were to return they would have to be low skilled non union workers in order to keep the prices at anything close to affordable. I read an article the other day that even if Apple were to assemble their iPhones in the US the cost given American labour rates would be several thousand...I think the number was $2500 but I don't recall exactly.
 
Fabiusbile said:
A delightful American trait... The American shat in his pants and is sure that the Russians are to blame for this.
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Is it news to you that some BRICS members want to supplant the global dominance of the US dollar?
 
dmpi said:
There's nothing wrong with the US dollar other than we sold trillions of T-bills to China and now they're dumping them because they're desperate for those very 'despised' US dollars to prop up their own currency to keep it from going into free-fall.
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So you’re going to go with denial as Trump pushes our country off of a financial cliff.
 
Trump is stupidly declaring war on a system that helped make the US the wealthiest nation on earth.
It’s not going well.
This was wholly unnecessary.
He manufactured this ‘crisis’.
It has wiped trillions in value from the markets.
His implementation screams chaos.
China will not blink.
The midterms are looming.

VOTE THEM ALL OUT.
 
aociswundumho said:
No, it helps a small number of workers, which is why the UAW and teamsters support Trump's tariffs.
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Lol UAW only wants the automotive tariffs, and it’s an open secret that O’Brien sold out.
aociswundumho said:
It hurts everyone, because every man, woman, and child is a consumer.
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Yes and no. It hurts normal people like you and me a lot more, because a much larger share of our income is consumed. When I buy some coffee from Colombia, it’s a larger share of my income than it is when a billionaire does the same.

Billionaires won’t be affected. You and I will see our quality of life crater.
aociswundumho said:
Nobody wants that shit. If the "safety net" were such a great idea you wouldn't have to force people to pay for it.
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Everybody wants it for themselves.

You aren’t forced. You could go live somewhere with no social safety net, with few laws and regulations. Those libertarian dream states are all absolute shitholes, because libertarianism is ****ing stupid.
 
dmpi said:
There's nothing wrong with the US dollar other than we sold trillions of T-bills to China and now they're dumping them because they're desperate for those very 'despised' US dollars to prop up their own currency to keep it from going into free-fall.
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****.

You know what, keep thinking this and see what price you pay for this lack of foresight.

I encourage it.

(It’s not only China selling T bills.)
 
Absentglare said:
So you’re going to go with denial as Trump pushes our country off of a financial cliff.
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denial makes people feel better; reality not so much.

eventually the Oligarchs will dump the us dollar when they finished using it as their globalist tool. the next tool will be CBDC and Blockchain, if you wanna know. CBDC is a better financial tool to control/monitor every penny you spend.


https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=cbdc+blockchain+controls+people&ia=web take yur pick, plenty to read/research.


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Callen said:
It was Japan that was dumping the most. There is a problem with your dollar and your treasuries but believe what you want or rather what you are told to believe.
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Oh right... Japan doing the dumping. LOL. They just say 'Japan' because NOBODY want to say China is dumping or else their economy will go into total panic and meltdown. Trump wants a negotiated trade settlement, he doesn't want to destroy the Chinese economy because that will destroy ours too. Notice that Trump backed off when that happened, and then he made an effort to isolate China as the 'bad' free trading partner... as if the rest of the world didn't already know that. Bottom line is somebody needed to head to head against China trading practices and it might as well be now. The world world knows it, and they're behind Trump.
 

very true, it has become abundantly clear by now.

it depends if the Oligarchs have the stomach for WW three, to bring us into the World Wide technocracy and CBDC currency they have as a goal in the end. so now it is wait and see.

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