Monday, April 24, 2023

Will America win from de-dollarisation? — Thomas Fazi,

Summary. You know all this if you have been following this, but it's a useful summary for those not following it closely.

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Will America win from de-dollarisation?
Thomas Fazi, co-author with Bill Mitchell of Reclaiming the State

4 comments:

Peter Pan said...

Not as catastrophic as we keep hearing on the MSM.

Matt Franko said...

Foreign official reserves are only down about the 300B they disappeared from Russia a year ago:

https://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt


The rest is just repatriation of USD reserves by US multinationals due to the Trump tax cuts which iirc allowed a 5 year transition to qualify for the tax cuts..

US multinationals no longer have to keep the offshore USD retained earnings in foreign banks to avoid the taxes…



Matt Franko said...

It was 8 years:

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-a-comparison-for-large-businesses-and-international-taxpayers

“ Section 965 imposes a transition tax on untaxed foreign earnings of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies by deeming those earnings to be repatriated. A mandatory tax of 15.5 percent on post-1986 accumulated foreign earnings held in cash or cash equivalents and an 8 percent mandatory tax on post-1986 accumulated foreign earnings held in liquid assets is imposed. The transition tax generally may be paid in installments over an eight-year period.”

This is what the TIC accounting is illustrating… it’s going to the TGA…

Matt Franko said...

AAPL alone had 300B stashed in Ireland…