The U.S. dollar continued its six-month slide Tuesday amid a growing international chorus that wants the dollar replaced - or at least supplemented - as the world's reserve currency, a move that would end the greenback's six decades of global dominance.
07 October 2009 , 12:20Frank AhrensThe Washington Post0
PARIS — Russia’s appetite for joining the World Trade Organization appears to have evaporated, even though the trade group has been proving its mettle in discouraging protectionist reactions during the recent financial upheaval, the head of the W.T.O. said Friday.
06 October 2009 , 08:18Matthew Saltmarsh, Andrew E. KramerThe New York Times0
When I was assigned to work at the Soviet Embassy in Beijing in 1982, many of my fellow diplomats asked, “What did you do wrong to get such a terrible, backwoods assignment?”
World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick warned Monday that, with foreign economic powers rising quickly on the world stage, time is running out for the privileged role enjoyed by the American currency.
30 September 2009 , 08:29Patrice HillThe Washington Times0
Athenian owls, Roman denarii, British sovereigns, US dollars. There have been many pseudo reserve currencies down the ages. Now the governor of the People’s Bank of China has called for a new global currency “disconnected from individual nations”.
