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International bankers estimate that roughly two-thirds of Chinese reserves have been invested in dollar assets.
Chinese reserves invested in these conservative financial instruments are relatively safe, but they yield little return.
But the reality is that neither the euro nor the yen is capable of soaking up China’s growing foreign-exchange reserves.
Successful deployment of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) technology in Xinjiang suggests that China, like America, will soon be able to draw on its own reserves of shale energy.
In new cities across the country, urban plans already take into account such concerns, with riparian greenways and urban nature reserves complementing infrastructure projects that have environmental benefits (for example, extensive mass-transit networks).
To this end, Putin has maximized the foreign-policy value of Russia’s vast oil and gas reserves, enabling the Kremlin to build partnerships with rising Asian powers, especially China.
Many G20 countries are currently spending billions of dollars subsidizing efforts to tap new coal, oil, and gas reserves.
As the crisis hit, stronger banking systems and effective macroeconomic policies – including fiscal responsibility and low public debt, exchange-rate flexibility, and a large accumulation of international reserves – allowed Latin American countries to implement unprecedented countercyclical policies.
Central banks will get into the game (their reserves are already a form of wholesale digital currency), but that is not the end of the story.
Second, there must be serious doubts about whether Asian and Middle Eastern governments will in fact want to shift more reserves into dollars, especially if this means converting the euros they have acquired since 2003 at a loss and far below their purchasing power parity.
Over a trillion barrels of proven reserves exist, and more is likely to be found.
But two-thirds of those proven reserves are in the Persian Gulf, and are thus vulnerable to disruption.
In the hawks’ view, the real energy problem is not the absence of petroleum reserves, but the fact that they are concentrated in a vulnerable area.
Energy independence may be impossible for a country that consumes a quarter of the world’s oil but has only 3% of its reserves.
America, in turn, said that the world should be thankful: by living beyond its means, it helped keep the global economy going, especially given high savings rates in Asia, which accumulated hundreds of billions of dollars in reserves.
Of the foreign reserves held by the world’s governments, just 1.1% are in renminbi, compared with 64% for the dollar.
The islands, claimed by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei, are valuable because of their oil reserves and commercial fishing industry.
Two-thirds of all global reserves are in dollars, and 88% of all foreign-exchange transactions worldwide include dollars.
Brazil spent $45 billion in foreign exchange reserves in a failed attempt to defend the currency, which ended up collapsing anyway in January 1999.
For example, negative interest policy rates (NIRPs) are now standard in Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, the eurozone, and Japan, where the excess reserves that banks hold with central banks as a result of QE are taxed with a negative rate.
First, central banks could tax cash to prevent banks from attempting to avoid the negative-rate tax on excess reserves.
The damage to the sector – and, more broadly, to investor confidence – will trickle across Tunisia’s economy, pushing down output, fiscal revenue, and foreign reserves.
They needed to fake it for seven years in order to build up adequate reserves against losses.
Another apparent advantage is Germany’s large financial reserves, which not only cushioned it from the crisis, but also conferred upon it considerable political sway.
In recent years, an emerging debate has focused on whether the global economic system of the 2000s – in which export-oriented emerging economies essentially pegged their currencies to the dollar to obtain faster growth and accumulate foreign-exchange reserves at spectacular rates – effectively created a sort of “Bretton Woods II.”Could China and the US formalize such a system, with the renminbi playing a greater role?
If some extra-terrestrial thief came in the night and stole two-thirds of the planet’s coal, gas, and oil reserves, all of humanity could still enjoy the household appliances, information-technology products and services, heating, lighting, and mobility that define the modern world.
Total gas and coal reserves could support current demand for more than a hundred years, and technological progress – for example, hydraulic fracturing, which has unlocked shale energy – makes an ever growing share of these reserves economically attractive.
But the Iranian budget is now running a 15%-of-GDP deficit, and foreign reserves are shrinking, despite the oil boom.
But if Iraq’s leaders can create enough near-term stability to combine Lebanon’s openness and entrepreneurial energy with the revenue that comes from development of the country’s vast oil reserves – an advantage that Lebanon’s leaders can only envy – Iraq might one day offer citizens of neighboring states something they don’t have: a hopeful model for the future.
Countries were warned: avoid trade deficits and build up reserves, because they are the key frontline defense.
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