Yuan Revaluation Debate. From the Archives. Posted on July 19, 2007. Previously filed under: Asia, Global Economy. Asia's growth is impacting global financial relations, but the debate about the Chinese currency may be oversimplified. ...

The column by Guy DeJonguieres argues that domestic reforms have to be combined with yuan appreciation. 5 The data come from the UNDP's Human Development Report 2005, from Table 3 for spending and Table 10 for life expectancy. ...

"We're not going up 65% in the first nine months of this year like we did in the last nine months," said Bob Doll, global chief investment officer of fundamental equities at investment manager BlackRock Inc. .... "All of the smoke signals we're hearing from the various Fed presidents points to the unwinding of the liquidity we have put into the system; it's just a question of when," added Marilyn Cohen, president of Envision Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based bond ...

The deeper issue though is whether or not such a market would have a hope of being deep and liquid enough to perform the risk-sharing functions that you envision for it. There is a natural hierarchy of global currencies that derives ... compared to US's 28 and now that China is our largest trading partner,one wonders why Dollar's importance is exaggerated not only at RBI but in policy debates as well.Why Dollar was chosen for currency futures and not, say, Euro or Yuan? ...

This latter point is not entirely intuitive, and I might argue that the best way to avoid future expectations of devaluation is get the Renminbi/Yuan revaluation (which everyone expects, but over which there is massive ...... The reason why they wanted a currency to replace the dollar is multifold, first they can't ascend to any kind of global dominence as long as they must continuously expend large amounts to prop up our dollar, and they don't want a perminent symbiotic ...

So he has an inflow of EXTRA yuan to store for future retirement. His three choices are keep the paper yuan (not a good idea with inflation), buy a specific entity's future bondage, or buy a share of the entire future global workforce (gold ). ..... I doubt that a currency revaluation is a plan set in stone. The powers that be ALWAYS create CONTINGENCY plans for stuff they don't want us to know about. Paulson admitted they had contingency plans for social chaos in case the ...

I would not be surprised to see central banks start using the renminbi (the currency of the newly awakened People's Republic of China—also called the yuan) for international trade and reserves in the not too distant future. ...... I know AMERICANS that think a global government is a WONDERFUL idea! They envision a StarTrek kind of planet. It hasn't occured to them what the more likely outcome would be. My guess is something along the lines of Nazi Germany or the Islamic ...