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I am confused by this article, was it that many words to say that "the US will have a strong dollar until it doesn't have a strong dollar"? Isn't the premise s
by JamisonM 7y ago
I am confused by this article, was it that many words to say that "the US will have a strong dollar until it doesn't have a strong dollar"?
Isn't the premise sort of undermined by the fact (posited in the text) that overseas US denominated debt is actually better offset by US dollar denominated holdings than ever before?
And I don't entirely understand the importance of say a Turkey or Argentina default to this scenario. If large amounts if USD debts can't be serviced that alleviates the so-called "squeeze" because the haircuts represent money that doesn't need to be "found".
There was a lot of words in there and it seems like a pretty big pile of assumptions stacked on top of assumptions and it doesn't make a straightforward argument in favour of the premise that we should expect the US dollar to devalue relative to other currencies in the medium term.
(Also the link that explains trade deficits is a pretty bad explanation of trade deficits and how they do and don't matter.)
- symplee 7y agoExactly. And then at the way end, there's a graph with the two scenarios predicting what will happen based on all of the article's analysis: Scenario 1: Dollar goes up, then down. Scenario 2: Dollar goes down. In each Microsoft Paint drawn scenario, there's only a vague implied scale. Scenario 1 going up to ~$130 around 2025, then falling to ~$92 around 2035. Scenario 2 falling to ~$75 by 2035. So if the dollar goes up, the author is right. If it goes down, the author is right. If it stays the same? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯