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While communist China is busy smashing protests in occupied Tibet, the country’s currency, the renminbi, is making record gains agains the US dollar.
By bailing out Wall Street and applying “band-aids” to the economy, the U.S. Federal Reserve may well be causing its own downfall – even as it hastens the demise of the greenback as a viable global currency, investment guru Jim Rogers told Money Morning during an exclusive interview.
The Bear Stearns rescue and the Treasury department’s call for a new “blueprint” have helped ignite a rally in financial stocks… but it seems nothing can kickstart the dollar.
Gold futures have shed over 4% so far today in what MarkeWatch is calling “a broad-based commodities sell-off.”
According to the site, “gold for June delivery tumbled $41.80, or 4.5%, to $879.70 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Other metals futures were also sharply lower, with platinum selling off 7%.”