Res Bank of #India looking for emerging market currencies as alt reserve currencies to the $. #Bitcoin is the answer.

RBI seeks alternative to

timesofindia.indiatimes.com 21 Nov '12, 12pm

Res Bank of #India looking for emerging market currencies as alt reserve currencies to the $. #Bitcoin is the answer.

MUMBAI: Even as China tries to promote the Yuan as an international currency, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has joined the effort of chipping away at the dollar's pre-eminent position as the world's currency. The central bank on Monday called for inclusion of emerging market currencies as alternative reserve currencies to the dollar. Delivering the 46th A D Shroff Memorial Lecture in Mumbai on Tuesday, RBI governor D Subbarao said that the dollar's monopoly as a reserve currency had resulted in many countries facing a liquidity problem as foreign creditors and foreign investors turned risk averse. "Paradoxically, even as the US economy was in a downturn, and its central bank resorted to extraordinary quantitative easing, the dollar strengthened as a result of flight to safety," Subbarao said. The governor pointed out that one alternative was to have a menu of reserve currenc...

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