Dollar’s Reserve Status Is Waning, U.S. Treasury Borrowing Committee Says

[marmar]

(Bloomberg) The committee of bond dealers and investors that advises the U.S. Treasury said the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency “appears to be slipping” in quarterly feedback presented to the government.

The Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, which includes representatives from firms ranging from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to Pacific Investment Management Co., said the outperformance of haven currencies and those from emerging nations has aided in the debasement of the dollar’s reserve status, according to comments included in discussion charts presented ahead of the quarterly refunding. The Treasury published the documents today.

“The idea of a reserve currency is that it is built on strength, not typically that it is ‘best among poor choices’,” page 35 of the presentation made by one committee member said. “The fact that there are not currently viable alternatives to the U.S. dollar is a hollow victory and perhaps portends a deteriorating fate.”

Members of the TBAC, as the committee is known, which met yesterday in Washington, also discussed the implications of a downgrade of the U.S. sovereign credit rating. “None of the members thought that a downgrade was imminent,” according to minutes of the meeting released by the Treasury. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-03/dollar-s-reserve-status-is-waning-u-s-treasury-borrowing-committee-says.html

[banned from Kos]

1. yet, the dollar exchange index (DXY) is stronger now than in 3/2008

before QE or QE2 began and crude oil is LOWER by a wide margin.

K/R

[DCBob]

2. and what would be the alternative??

hard to imagine what that would be.

[xchrom]

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