June 10 (Bloomberg) -- Russia and Brazil, seeking to reduce their dependence on the dollar, announced plans to buy $20 billion of bonds from the International Monetary Fund and diversify foreign-currency reserves.How could this have happened? We may need to spend more money to find out.
Russia’s central bank said it may cut investments in U.S. Treasuries, currently valued at as much as $140 billion, a week after China said it may reduce reliance on the dollar and American bonds. Brazil’s Finance Minister Guido Mantega said his country will purchase $10 billion of debt sold by the IMF, China will buy $50 billion and India may announce similar funding.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Maybe It Would Help If We Borrowed More Money
This doesn't sound like good news.
Would you please stop with this alarmism? The president has promised to pay for all new spending...right after he borrows a few hundred billion for the healthcare thingy. Sometimes I think you don't want to believe.
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