First of all, the audience looks at the data revealed.

Reserves are like savings accounts.

Yes, China does pile up reserves in dollars.

The Fed has printed new bank reserves with reckless abandon.

Money put into reserves is income not spent.

And at least until they're 23, we're still popping those worms into those little open mouths.

The cables show that state hand can reach even to your personal and family life.

Consequently, these reserves provided the fuel for economic populism.

Foreign exchange reserves are an immense 1.9 trillion.

Capital is flowing out of the country, and official reserves are slowly being depleted.

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Their international reserves would decline and or their debt would rise.

So let me just give you a summary of what no take reserves do.

They trade globally, across porous borders, attaching little significance to the geographical location of capital and liquidity.

This destroyed what little confidence in the banking system remained. As foreign reserves continued to plummet, the peso's devaluation became inevitable.

Capital is flowing out of the country, and official reserves are slowly being depleted.

Growth has been strong, inflation is under control, and international reserves have increased steadily.

International reserves 36,3 33,0 35,9 37,8 49,3 52,9 53,8 85,8 109,5

Instead, China s reserves mostly underwrite America s debt.

Finally, the market timing practices of mutual funds that have been revealed to date simply don't amount to all that much in the broader scheme of things.

At the war s end, they thought of a new way of using their reserves spend them.

Moreover, Venezuela has its own economic problems, despite its enormous dollar reserves.

These are large numbers even for Russia, with its currency reserves of 480 billion.

We witness again the ritual of concealment, censorship, foreign publishing, leaks to blogs and finally a tiring day of non stop blabbering media.

They are supposed to keep reserves of 20 days in their inventory which they did not.

Its huge foreign currency reserves give it the freedom to ignore the IMF and the US Treasury.

Countries like to keep their reserves growing in tandem with growth in imports and other foreign liabilities.

It would be more efficient to pool the reserves of countries that need them at different times.

In normal times, there are valid reasons for paying interest on excess reserves.

Some enthusiastic Europeans encouraged Asians to diversify their reserve holdings.

Many emerging markets preferred to self insure by accumulating reserves rather than borrow from the Fund.

For surplus countries that want to accumulate reserves, it would reduce exchange rate risk.

As a result, higher commodity prices are eating into fiscal cushions rather than curtailing demand.

Banks are required by law to maintain reserves at the Fed in proportion to the checkable deposits on their books.

The absurdity here is the idea that all foreign aid should be added to reserves.

One is the need for banks and other financial institutions to hold liquid reserves.

Establishing a green fund would be an implicit pledge to do so by putting the gold reserves of the IMF at risk.

It has paid off its foreign debt and built up foreign currency reserves of 450 billion.

Today, even formerly bankrupt governments from Korea to Russia to Mexico are awash in dollars.

Moreover, the ability of the financial authorities to stimulate the economy is constrained by the unwillingness of the rest of the world to accumulate additional dollar reserves.

Despite all this, massive excess bank reserves remain unlent.

Underused land reserves also exist elsewhere in South America, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.

That made sense only if the bank used the reserves to back up expanded lending and deposits.

Instead, companies hoarded vast cash reserves, mainly in tax free offshore accounts.

Russia s international reserves have fallen by 135 billion, and inflation has reached double digits.