E' ora di dominio pubblico una memoria segreta scritta nel 1974 da Sidney Weintraub, assistente del Segretario di Stato per la Finanza Internazionale a Paul Volcker, che all'epoca era sotto-segretario del Tesoro e non ancora capo della Federal Reserve.
Questa memoria svela il vero pensiero americano sul sistema monetatio internazionale, sulle valute, sugli SDR e, sopratttutto, sull'oro, (avvertendo di possibili conflitti di interesse con l'unione europea).
Una copia del documento originale, ora desecretato, si trova pubblicata sul sito web "Office of the Historian", nella sezione dei documenti sulla politica estera degli USA nel periodo 1973–1976.
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Questa memoria spiega i diversi approcci che gli USA intendevano utilizzare per dominare il mercato dell'oro, per scollegarlo dal sistema monetario e per mantenere sotto un certo limite i prezzi dell'oro nel libero mercato, in contrasto con i desideri di alcune nazioni europee (quando l'euro non esisteva ancora).
"Gli obiettivi degli Stati Uniti sono per un sistema monetario mondiale durevole e stabile, con al centro una preziosa risorsa di riserva costituita dagli SDR (Special Drawing Rights) e quindi dal dollaro. Tutto ciò è incompatibile con un ruolo importante dell'oro come asset di riserva. Qualsiasi aumento sostanziale del prezzo con cui sono realizzate le operazioni ufficiali di oro avrebbe rafforzato la posizione dell'oro nel sistema monetario e paralizzato gli SDR."
In altre parole, un prezzo dell'oro in salita danneggerebbe la valuta di riserva del momento, cioé il dollaro: un concetto che ormai abbiamo capito da tempo ma che solo ora possiamo vederlo ammesso in una corrispondenza ufficiale Top Secret.
Il resto traducetevolo voi:
To encourage and facilitate the eventual demonetization of gold, our position is to keep the present gold price, maintain the present Bretton Woods agreement ban against official gold purchases at above the official price and encourage the gradual disposition of monetary gold through sales in the private market. An alternative route to demonetization could involve a substitution of SDRs for gold with the IMF, with the latter selling the gold gradually on the private market, and allocating the profits on such sales either to the original gold holders, or by other agreement.... "Any redefinition of the role of gold must be based on the principle stated above: that SDR must become the center of the system and that there can be no question of introducing a new form of gold– paper and gold–metal bimetallism, in which the SDR and gold would be in competition."
And there, in three sentences, you have all the deep thinking behind the IMF's SDR: simply to use it as a vehicle through which a select few can accumulate gold (namely those who can create fiat SDRs), while handing out paper "profits" to the happy sellers. And just in case it was not quite clear, here it is again, point blank: Option 3: Complete short-term demonetization of gold through an IMF substitution facility.
Countries could give up their gold holdings to the IMF in exchange for SDRs. The gold could then be sold gradually, over time, by the IMF to the private market. Profits from the gold sales could be distributed in part to the original holders of the gold, allowing them to realize at least part of the capital gains, while part of the profits could be utilized for other purposes, such as aid to LDCs. Advantages: This would achieve our goal of demonetization and relieve the problem of gold immobility, since the SDRs received in exchange could be used for settlement with no fear of foregoing capital gains. Disadvantages: This might be a more rapid demonetization than several countries would accept. There would be no benefit from the viewpoint of financing oil imports with gold sales to Arabs (although it is not necessarily incompatible with such an arrangement). One wonders just who in the "private market" would be stupid enough to convert their invaluable paper money into worthless, barbaric relics? And finally, was there the tiniest hint of a proposed alternative system to the PetroDollar. Namely, PetroGold? There is a belief among certain Europeans that a higher price of gold for settlement purposes would facilitate financing of oil imports... Although mobilization of gold for intra-EC settlement would help in the financing of imbalances among EC countries, it would not, of itself, provide resources for the financing of the anticipated deficit with the oil producers. For this purpose, it would be useful if the oil producers would invest some of their excess revenues in gold purchases from deficit EC countries at close to a market price. This would be an attractive proposal for European countries, and for the U.S., in that it would not involve future interest burdens and would avoid immediate problems arising from increased Arab ownership of European and American industry. (The Arabs could both sell the gold and use the proceeds for direct investment, so that the industry ownership problem would not be completely solved.) From the Arab point of view such an asset would have the advantages of being protected from exchange-rate changes and inflation, and subject to absolute national control. One wonders if the price of gold is "high enough" now for Arab purposes, and just where the Arabs are now in their thinking of converting oil into gold... or alternatively into a gold-backed renminbi. And if not now, soon, once the pent up inflation in the Fed's $4 trillion, and rising, balance sheet inevitably start to leak out?
Koos Jansen
fonte: koosjansen.blogspot.ie
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