Thread: China decides to unpeg currency against the dollar

Gold is good!Is it as easy to convert into currency,though?Or would you be holding it for the long-term?

Originally Posted by thanksalot

I think we (Americans) would be smart to open foreign bank accounts and move away from the Am Dollar! I want to do this but I am not exactly sure how!!

Don't need to. There is an American FDIC insured :roll: bank that allows you to hold the world's important currencies via their web banking platform - Everbank. Just go to Everbank dot com and read up on their World Market product offerings. If you want to move in and out of physical gold electronically, I would open a Gold Money account (run by James Turk - famous and respected gold advocate) and have it set up to automatically debit and credit dollars into your Everbank account. With a setup like that, an American can move in and out of fiat currencies and gold all from the Net with minimum fees.

If you have big sums to play with, then a foreign account should still be in the plans. Realize that it will cost more in fees and perhaps headaches (don't expect US bank speed and efficiency in a different culture) but it will be out of reach of USA litigants.

Excellent ideas,lonerx

Maybe I'll try that myself,eventually.

I'm interested and looking iinto it myself as a Retiree on this, application is submitted and a deposit of $3000 made as opposed to a minimum of $2500 as required. I shall compare the fees listed below...phew, pretty comprehensive but worth comparing to my other USD $$ account offered by my DBS Bank...which has a multitude of internatiomnal perks and benefits provided as well and just as handy to have.

Well, I thought if any of you would like to consider prior to apening an account with EverBank, keep in mind with the fees stated below that you will be faced with once your account becomes effective.

YB.

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Originally Posted by rahly

thanksalot,

All you'd need to do is open an account with a foreign or American bank in either Euros,Cable or Swissies(for example)and convert your Greenbacks to the alternate currency as you receive them.
Sure,it'll cost a bit to convert,but in the long run,you'll be taking advantage of fluctuations in the currency ratios.If it's obvious enough to you that this devaluation isn't just a short-term glitch,then you'd figure that you'd be getting ahead(or at least,not losing as much buying power),at least in the short-term(I think).
As for structure,well,that depends on your needs.

Hope this helps.

Just open up an E-gold account. There are no transfer fees to convert your money into any other major currency, though I am not sure about withdrawing and spending outside of the E-gold account with the money conversion.

Another alternative would be to open an acct. at Kitco,and purchase gold bullion e-certificate;you can re-sell your certificates as needed,taking any gains/losses as you convert to currency.Kitco makes wt's to your current bank accts.
But since when is gold a bad investment,anyway?

Yes, the decline of the dollar is likely to continue as long as war-like policies top the agenda of the Bush Administration. Indebtedness does not make for a strong currency. Solid economic programs strengthen a currency. This has been lacking in the Bush Dynasties.

Look what has been happening with oil? Guess who has a lot to do with that ballooning enigma? Accidental? Both these points have a lot to do with monetary movements.

peterben

Another grave influence on the US Greenback is exercised by the policies of China, which has a characteristic NO-CHANGE in currency fluctuations. Yet the U.S. kept demanding a revaluation of the China 'Yuan'. Basis for this is due to imbalance in trade deficit between both in favor of China.

So, China accommodated on the face of it. They offered a so-called "fluctuation" of the Yuan, only to restrict it to +/-0.3%. Well, firstly, that is neither a fluctuation nor a revaluation, and secondly, it was the in-place range guideline to NO-Change policy within China. They merely responded to US pressure to publicise change.

Bullishness of China shows their large US Dollar reserves, the biggest in the world, vs. U.S. indebtedness, the biggest in the world. This makes for a rather volatile U.S. Dollar. Can the U.S. afford to rumble?

peterben

Originally Posted by gadget

China has announced it is to ditch pegging its currency against the dollar in a move which should see the economy in China slow. China has now decided to opt for a basket of currencies to manage the Yuan

where did you get this news??
I think it is not creditable.