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The U.S. Dollar, 1794-2010. R.I.P.

CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,123 ✭✭✭✭✭
So, once the dollar is gone, what do we buy and sell our precious metals in???
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  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,007 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Use gold to buy silver.
    Use silver to buy gold.
    Repeat as needed. image

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  • HalfStrikeHalfStrike Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭
    Pesos?
  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ameros?
  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,825 ✭✭✭✭✭
    <<<crickets chirping>>>
    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.


  • << <i>So, once the dollar is gone, what do we buy and sell our precious metals in??? >>



    You may have to get the mark first, because we'll probably have a one world purchasing system when that happens.
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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭


    << <i><<<crickets chirping>>> >>





    Ditto.


    Lots of trading?
  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭✭✭
    CNNMoney getting in on this discussion a bit

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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,647 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Somebody won't race tyo the bottom and can make huge money by
    becoming the reserve currency. Failing this we'll just have to issue
    new money if and when they all become worthless. At some point
    people lose track of all the zeros on a note even before the printer
    runs out of paper to put them on.

    Inflation doesn't have to be all that severe but it will probably start
    very rapidly, at a very high rate, and fairly soon.
    Tempus fugit.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    the Dollar will never be "gone"... premature screeching about it's "demise" notwithstanding.

    now, the value of the dollar in terms of other units of asset measure... that continues to change.


    to answer your question.. we'll buy and sell our metals for.. wait for it...


    more dollars

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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,647 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd watch for China to take over reserve currency status.

    It may be one of their long term goals anyway.

    They're about to take a bath on silver probably so it will be interesting to see how this is handled
    if they really want to have the reserve currency. There's been talk of an oil-based reserve currency
    for years and this will probably resurface as well.

    It's not impossible that one of the smaller economies like Canada could usurp this role. If not directly
    then as a sort of defacto reserve.
    Tempus fugit.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,647 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    It's not impossible that one of the smaller economies like Canada could usurp this role. If not directly
    then as a sort of defacto reserve. >>



    Ouch! The sign at the cash register would say no US quarters, please. image
    Tempus fugit.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,647 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>the Dollar will never be "gone"... premature screeching about it's "demise" notwithstanding.

    now, the value of the dollar in terms of other units of asset measure... that continues to change.


    to answer your question.. we'll buy and sell our metals for.. wait for it...


    more dollars >>




    Yes. The dollar should have years of life left in it.

    It will become much less popular in a long list of countries though.
    Tempus fugit.


  • << <i>the Dollar will never be "gone"... premature screeching about it's "demise" notwithstanding.

    now, the value of the dollar in terms of other units of asset measure... that continues to change.


    to answer your question.. we'll buy and sell our metals for.. wait for it...


    more dollars >>

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  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,308 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>the Dollar will never be "gone"... premature screeching about it's "demise" notwithstanding.

    now, the value of the dollar in terms of other units of asset measure... that continues to change.


    to answer your question.. we'll buy and sell our metals for.. wait for it...


    more dollars >>

    image >>



    Exactly!!

    Just like the English Pound lost its World Currency status (or should I say World dominance) after WW1.

    It's still around.

    Just another ho-hum currency, that's all.
    "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    the euros. it might happen yet here as well
  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭


    << <i> Just like the English Pound lost its World Currency status (or should I say World dominance) after WW1.

    It's still around.

    Just another ho-hum currency, that's all. >>



    Amen.
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,512 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>So, once the dollar is gone, what do we buy and sell our precious metals in??? >>



    Chinese YN. image
    GrandAm :)
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,122 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>So, once the dollar is gone, what do we buy and sell our precious metals in??? >>



    We will be using the "New Dollar".

    1 New Dollar = 1,000,000,000 old Dollars

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    The good old American Dollar will be replaced by the

    Mickey D Hamburger. It is accepted all over the world

    even though it is rarely digested properly.
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