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| Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
| Russia, China re-thinking dollar trade |
| 2008-10-18 |
| Russia and China should scrap the US dollar in bilateral trade in the light of the global financial crisis, Russian businessmen suggest. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Yeah, well that might be at an end. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-10-18 23:41 |
| #4 I will worry about the value of the dollar the day that the cocaine cartels in South America start refusing to take it in exchange for their drugs. There is a good reason why every mafia, drug smuggler, and contraband smuggler in the world wants the dollar as payment : world-wide acceptance at face value. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2008-10-18 23:20 |
| #3 Should and suggest by unnamed people who are not members of any government. Let me know when those who can make it happen start working to do so. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-10-18 13:40 |
| #2 They'll switch to the Bol |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-10-18 12:40 |
| #1 More bad, bad news from countries that will never again use the USD. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-10-18 01:03 |