Geithner, Bernanke & Obama scoff at demise of dollar while feverishly concocting perfect storm for its collapse
Prison Planet >> Originally Published 25th March 2009
Obama, Geithner and Bernanke yesterday publicly defended the dollar and denounced proposals by China and Russia to supplant the greenback with a new global currency, and yet the very policies of the Obama administration, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve are creating the perfect storm for the dollar’s death and its replacement with a new international reserve currency.
As we reported on Monday, China has expressed support for Russia’s proposal to hand the IMF the power to create a new supra-national global currency in response to the call for an alternative to the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency.
Last week the Kremlin called for the “creation of a supranational reserve currency to be issued by international institutions as part of a reform of the global financial system.”
Yesterday, Barack Obama, Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke all separately expressed support for the dollar and denounced the Chinese-Russian proposal for a new global currency.
“… The dollar is extraordinarily strong right now,” said Obama during his prime-time press conference. “The reason the dollar is strong right now is because investors consider the United States the strongest economy in the world, with the most stable political system in the world. So, you don’t have to take my word for it.”
When asked if he supported the introduction of a new global currency, Obama flatly stated, “No, I don’t support a global currency.”
Watch the clip courtesy of Raw Story.
During Tuesday’s congressional hearing, both Geithner and Bernanke echoed Obama’s statement.
“Would you categorically renounce the United States moving away from the dollar and going to a global currency as suggested by China?” a lawmaker asked Treasury Secretary Geithner.
Geithner immediately responded, “I would.”
“And the chair?” the lawmaker asked, after turning to Fed chairman Bernanke.
“I would also,” Bernanke said.
The creation of a new supra-national global reserve currency to supplant the U.S. dollar would likely lead to a complete collapse of the greenback, of which trillions are held in in foreign exchange reserves by foreign countries such as China and Japan.
In the case of Obama, Geithner and Bernanke, actions certainly speak louder than words, because while publicly denouncing the demise of the dollar and the call for a new global currency, their every policy is creating the very means and justification for its introduction.
Bernanke himself has vehemently supported efforts to create a global regulatory framework that would act as the vehicle for the introduction of a new global currency to replace the dollar.
He has echoed the sentiments of Blair, Brown, Merkel, Sarkozy and others in calling for a new world economic order and “A strategy that regulates the financial system as a whole, in a holistic way, not just its individual components,” Bernanke told a CFR audience at a speech earlier this month.
“I also will not say much about the international dimensions of the issue but will take as self-evident that, in light of the global nature of financial institutions and markets, the reform of financial regulation and supervision should be coordinated internationally to the greatest extent possible,” said Bernanke, adding that the crisis is “very much an international problem, and it requires international solutions.”
The endgame of a form of supervision “coordinated internationally to the greatest extent possible” can mean little else but the creation of a global currency that can be tightly regulated and controlled by international bodies such as the IMF and World Bank, therefore Bernanke’s public denouncement of a “global currency” is nothing more than a two faced stunt.
In addition, as Ron Paul has warned, Bernanke’s policies are leading to the destruction of the dollar and the creation of a vacuum that would create the perfect pretext for the introduction of a global currency.
Trillions upon trillions of freshly printed federal reserve notes that are being used to throw good money after bad, pay corrupt banker’s bonuses and bailout failed, inept and incompetent banks and corporations at the expense of the taxpayer are going to create a hyperinflationary holocaust that will plunge the dollar into a crisis never before experienced and will undoubtedly put massive pressure on China and Japan to liquidate their holdings of U.S. debt and replace it with a new form of international reserve currency.
The fact that banks are still holding on to the trillions printed since September last year has delayed any significant inflationary impact, but when the lending starts again, confidence in the greenback’s ability to act as an international reserve currency will sink and calls for its replacement will reach a crescendo.
Treasury Secretary Geithner has played a leading role in the wholesale looting of the greenback, announcing this week that the printing presses will be cranked to the tune of at least another $1 trillion to buy more “toxic assets” from the sagging balance sheets of failing institutions – again, all at the expense of the taxpayer who will pay for it with rampant tax hikes and runaway inflation on fuel and food later down the road.
This will mirror the situation in Iceland, where massive devaluation of the krona has destroyed savings and led to calls for the country to abandon their currency altogether and join the Euro. A similar fate awaits the U.S. with “helicopter Ben” and his loyal sidekick Geithner doing everything in their power to destroy the dollar’s value with ceaseless so-called “stimulus” plans.
Some analysts have gone even further, suggesting that the hyperinflationary backlash will not be on a par with Iceland, but with Zimbabwe, where the Zimbabwean dollar has suffered annual inflation of over 200 million per cent over the last few years.
Of course, the pound sterling and the Euro, on the back of identical hyperinflation caused by central banks overprinting money, will also collapse, leaving no alternative but for the introduction of a new global reserve currency to “restore confidence”.
And so we turn to Obama – the man who has used his political capital, slick speeches and confident smile to oversee the greatest destruction of American wealth since the great depression. Obama has acted as the slimy salesman for the introduction of Bernanke and Geithner’s multi-trillion dollar programs that can have no other effect but to weaken the position of the dollar as the global reserve currency, so for him to glibly express his opposition to a new global reserve currency that will replace the dollar is an act of gut-wrenching hypocrisy.
Obama has continually demonized private enterprise in favor of government intervention and has acted as the engine for the gargantuan transfer of wealth from American taxpayers to the Wall Street oligarchs that pull his strings.
While publicly denouncing a move towards a global currency yesterday, Obama has conversely announced that he will pursue a new world economic order, a “new global deal” in alliance with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
When we hear the terms “new world economic order,” and a “new global deal,” they are interchangeable with the agenda to create a new global currency. It’s all about taking more power and centralizing it into fewer hands and creating a de facto banking dictatorship that will have complete control over global currencies and exchange rate mechanisms.
Obama, Geithner and Bernanke are the three biggest culprits behind the destruction of the dollar and are culpable for creating the perfect storm for its replacement with a new global reserve currency – so for all three to claim yesterday that they support a strong dollar and oppose a global currency is like Bernie Madoff lecturing you that Ponzi schemes are immoral.
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