Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis (44 page)

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Authors: James Rickards

Tags: #Business & Economics

 
 
Bagehot, Walter
 
bailouts, U.S., of 2008
 
Baker, James A.
 
bancors
 
bank bailouts, 2008
 
Bank for International Settlements
 
bank holidays
 
bank lending
 
Bank of England
 
Bank of the United States
 
Banque de France
 
Barro, Robert
 
base money
 
Bear Stearns
 
beggar-thy-neighbor competitive devaluations
 
behavioral economics
 
Belgium
 
Bernanke, Ben
 
on gold and the Great Depression
 
money policies of
 
speech of 2002
 
Bernstein, Jared
 
bilateral trade relations
 
Black, Fischer
 
black markets
 
black swans (catastrophic events)
 
Blair, Dennis C.
 
Blessing, Karl
 
blue fuel (natural gas)
 
Brazil
 
Bretton Woods era, 1944–1973,
 
Buffett, Warren
 
Burns, Arthur
 
Bush, George W.
 
buy and hold strategy
 
 
Canada
 
capital controls implementation
 
capital flight
 
capital markets
 
capitalism, state
 
Carter, Jimmy
 
catastrophic collapse
 
catastrophic events
 
central banks
 
gold and aftermath of Panic of 2008
 
IMF as a global central bank
 
and reserve currencies
 
role in Great Depression
 
See also
Federal Reserve, U.S.
 
certainty, in economics
 
Chaisson, Eric J.
 
China
 
Beijing
 
consumption and increased U.S. exports
 
currency manipulation
 
early history of government collapse
 
economic zones
 
and European sovereign debt crisis of 2010
 
excess population of single men
 
fears of U.S. currency devaluation
 
and G20
 
one-child policy
 
rare earth exports skirmish with Japan
 
State Administration of Foreign Exchange
 
and SWF investments in U.S.
 
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
 
U.S.-China bilateral trade relations
 
U.S.-Chinese currency war
 
U.S. quantitative easing programs in
 
and U.S. Treasury debt
 
U.S. Treasury holdings
 
See also
yuan, Chinese
 
China National Offshore Oil Corporation
 
China-U.S. Strategic Economic Dialogue of 2006
 
Christ, Carl F.
 
Churchill, Winston
 
Citibank
 
Citigroup
 
civilizational collapse, causes of
 
Clinton, Bill
 
CNBC
 
Cogan, John F.
 
Cold War era
 
Collapse of Complex Societies, The
(Tainter)
 
collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)
 
commodities
 
Commodity Futures Modernization Act
 
Communist Party of China
 
competitive devaluations
 
complexity theory
 
Connally, John
 
connectedness, in complex systems
 
convening power theory
 
copper
 
correlation, in global financial warfare
 
Cosmic Evolution
(Chaisson)
 
Coughlin, Charles
 
counterfeiting
 
Credit-Anstalt Bank of Vienna
 
critical state systems
 
critical thresholds
 
currency collapse
 
capital flight response to
 
dollar collapse in complexity theory
 
1920s
 
currency convergence
 
currency devaluations
 
competitive
 
dollar devaluation against gold, 1930s and 1970s
 
1930s and 1970s
 
sterling devaluations
 
Tripartite Agreement of 1936 and
 
currency markets
 
currency peg
 
currency wars
 
Atlantic theater
 
benefits of
 
chaos as outcome of
 
Currency War I (1921–1936)
 
Currency War II (1967–1987)
 
Currency War III (2010–)
 
Eurasian theater
 
Pacific theater
 
Czechoslovakia
 
 
Davison, Henry P.
 
Dawes, Charles
 
Dawes Plan, 1924
 
de Gaulle, Charles
 
debasement
 
Defense, U.S. Department of, and financial war game
 
deficits
 
under gold exchange standard
 
international trade
 
and U.S. dollar vulnerability
 
deflation
 
China’s yuan exchange rate and
 
1920s gold prices and
 
in 1930s and U.S. gold devaluation
 
U.S. fears during 2000, 2002–2011
 
Deng Xiaoping
 
derivatives
 
derivatives contracts
 
Deutsche Bundesbank
 
devaluations
 
China’s fears of U.S. currency devaluation
 
competitive
 
1930s currency
 
U.S. 1930s gold devaluation
 
Dodd-Frank reform legislation of 2010
 
dollar inflation
 
dollar, U.S.
 
black market trade of
 
Bretton Woods system and
 
collapse in complexity theory
 
collapse of dollar-denominated markets
 
collapse of, potential
 
counterfeit one-hundred-dollar bills
 
devaluation of
 
dollar-gold parity
 
early warning attacks on
 
euro-dollar exchange rate
 
Federal Reserve and dollar price stability
 
on floating rate system
 
1920s Germany, value in
 
1930s devaluation against gold
 
1970s devaluation against gold
 
1980s return of
 
under Nixon’s New Economic Policy
 
reserve currency, as global
 
Russian ruble and
 
and SDRs in dollar replacement strategy
 
as supercurrency
 
yen-dollar relationship
 
yuan-dollar exchange rate
 
Dow Jones Industrial Average
 
Drudge Report
 
Dubai
 
 
economics
 
behavioral
 
financial
 
misuse of
 
efficient markets theory
 
Eichengreen, Barry
 
elite rent seeking
 
embargoes
 
Emergency Banking Act of 1933
 
emergent properties, in complex system
 
energy, money-as-energy model
 
England
 
and depression of 1920–1921
 
and German hyperinflation
 
gold reserves
 
and gold standard
 
London Gold Pool
 
1960s sterling crisis
 
1968 closing of gold market
 
and Panic of 1931
 
and Paris Peace Conference of 1919
 
and Treaty of Versailles
 
and Tripartite Agreement of 1936
 
“Enhancing International Monetary Stability—A Role for the SDR?” (IMF)
 
Eurasian theater, euro-yuan relationship
 
euro
 
creation of
 
and currency devaluation
 
euro-dollar exchange rate
 
and European sovereign debt crisis of 2010
 
Germany’s support of
 
launch of
 
as reserve currency
 
and SDRs
 
as supercurrency
 
U.S. and Chinese support of
 
and yuan
 
European Central Bank
 
European Common Market
 
European sovereign debt crisis of 2010
 
European Union
 
exports
 
expropriation
 

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