Nota: George Soros, um peso-pesado dos mercados financeiros (e do próprio capitalismo global) anunciou no Fórum de Davos o fim da era do Dólar. Depois disto ninguém me pode chamar catastrofista em questões monetárias (por dizer que o Dólar está a chegar ao fim da sua hegemonia global).

Soros: É o Fim do Dólar como Moeda de Reserva Mundial

``The current crisis is not only the bust that follows the housing boom, it's basically the end of a 60-year period of continuing credit expansion based on the dollar as the reserve currency,'' Soros said in a debate today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. ``Now the rest of the world is increasingly unwilling to accumulate dollars.''
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``From the 1980s we had the belief in the magic of the marketplace, and the authorities were so successful that they started to believe in this market fundamentalism,'' he said. ``That's gone too far.'' In times of crisis, ``they suspended the rules and they bailed out the banks. That created an asymmetric incentive system, a moral hazard, that allowed the expansion of credit.''

Fonte: Bloomberg