Argentina is flirting with dollarization, which is a peg to US Dollar by another name. That’s odd timing given how many pegs have blown up?

by inWineVerit4x Argentina already experimented with the “peg to the dollar” in1990. But Don’t have a happy E Argentina pegged its peso to the U.S. dollar from the early 1990s to the early 2000s as part of a currency board arrangement. Issues and Failure: While the peg initially helped to control inflation, it also made …

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AIER: De-dollarization Has Begun…

Guest Post by Peter C. Earle at the American Institute for Economic Research:   Last week, China and Brazil reached an agreement to settle trades in one anothers’ currencies. Over the past 15 years, China has replaced the United States as the main trading partner of resource-rich Brazil, and as such that shift may have been …

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