Word: dollarization
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...matter, but Miyake is optimistic, hoping that ordinary Tokyoites will drop in on Design Sight "casually, like visiting a supermarket." We know what he means, but can't help wondering if there's another comparison besides supermarkets and their brightly lit aisles of attention-grabbing packaging, competing for your dollar...
...every dollar the USDA spends on nutrition edu-cation, the food industry spends $24 on ads and marketing...
Consider what happened the first time the nations of the Persian Gulf found themselves in a dollar gusher, during the oil crises of the 1970s. They handed back much of that money to Western banks, which loaned it out to developing countries that couldn't repay it. Then, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japanese firms recycled their dollars by investing in trophy U.S. properties, including Rockefeller Center and the Pebble Beach resort. Both those deals ended in bankruptcy for the acquirers...
...Blackstone transaction makes barely a dent in China's foreign-currency reserves, but it signals that the government wants to invest its dollar stash more aggressively. The deal was nicely timed--just before top Chinese officials arrived in Washington for talks aimed at reducing the bilateral trade deficit. "It's a safe bet. It's politically savvy and economically very smart," says Bank of America market strategist Joseph Quinlan. The Saudi plastics buy, in turn, is part of an effort to move up the economic food chain from pumping oil to making things of value...
Until last year, partly as a result of the dollar-investing disasters described earlier and partly because most foreign investors preferred safe but low-yielding bonds, Americans earned more on their investments abroad than foreigners made here. This meant you could argue that our nation's decades-long spending binge had actually left it richer in relation to the rest of the world, not poorer. In 2006, though, the U.S.'s long-running investment-income surplus gave way to a deficit of $7.3 billion...