#1 Very nice from the Zanzibar beach I'm sitting on, but I doubt it's a big motivator!
#2 Sounds like something significant. Do you know of a way to quantify it?
#3 As far as I know, the threat is to shut financial institutions out of the US market. I don't think the US government has much control over a dollar once it's leaves the country.
#4 The Chinese have a similar ability to print massive amounts of money without inflation. I wonder if it's a property of sufficiently large economies. The article also mentions a downside that the Fed has had to print money to keep foreign institutions afloat.
#2 Sounds like something significant. Do you know of a way to quantify it?
#3 As far as I know, the threat is to shut financial institutions out of the US market. I don't think the US government has much control over a dollar once it's leaves the country.
#4 The Chinese have a similar ability to print massive amounts of money without inflation. I wonder if it's a property of sufficiently large economies. The article also mentions a downside that the Fed has had to print money to keep foreign institutions afloat.