reserve currency

This is a podcast I came across on the US Army War College web site. I'm halfway through and thought it's worth sharing. Nothing to see, you can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab. It's from Jan 9th and it's 36 minutes long. An exorbitant privilege. That is what French...

From the link: KUALA LUMPUR: The government will revisit the idea of using the gold dinar as a reserve currency, the Dewan Rakyat heard today. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the matter will be discussed during the upcoming meeting on Islamic economics and finance held in...

Historically, what are the lifecycle stages of a global reserve currency and where in that cycle is the US Dollar currently? Please answer in the form of an essay and include citations to any reference material.

Conspiracy theories about a so called New World Order (NWO) and a one world currency have been around for a long, long time. So long that most people, who are not disposed to giving conspiracies a moment's thought, and who have been paying attention to the global economic news, have to be a...

http://www.financeasia.com/News/276911,hong-kong-starts-trading-gold-in-renminbi.aspx It's not clear from the article is this is part of the PAGE or not. It will be interesting to see if this impacts demand for physical gold in Asia.