Reflexiones acerca del futuro del dólar norteamericano

• Salgado Defranc, Eddy ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial

     Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial

     Quito, Ecuador

     
• Localización: Revista Economía y Negocios, ISSN-e 2602-8050, Vol. 7, Nº. 2, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Journal Economía y Negocios (July - December 2016)), págs. 64-69
• Idioma: español
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  • Reflections about the future of the north american dollar
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  • español

    El comportamiento de la balanza comercial es un elemento fundamental en la toma de decisiones económicas, financieras y sociales de los países; por lo tanto, se hace necesario tomar en consideración su comportamiento. Es por ello que en el presente estudio se exhiben los resultados obtenidos en la balanza comercial del Ecuador, todo esto con la finalidad de identificar el comportamiento de la balanza comercial en el país en estos últimos cinco años e identificar el porcentaje de participación de la balanza comercial respecto del Producto Interno Bruto en el Ecuador y el crecimiento tanto del PIB como de la balanza comercial.

  • English

    In the last months of 1944, World War II was about to end and the United States had become the undisputed world’s leading economic power. In this context, what was known today as the Bretton Woods Conference was installed. In this Conference, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were created, and the US proposal to convert the dollar into currency world was accepted. After the signature of the agreement, it is attributed to Charles de Gaulle (future president of France) the phrase that the United States could buy the world with papers. For this not to happen, the United States pledged to exchange their dollars for gold at a rate of $ 35 a troy ounce. That is, when some Central Bank of the world had hoarded dollars, it could approach the Federal Reserve Bank and exchange these for gold. However, the US was losing its reserves in gold, reason why in 1971 it only could answer for the 17% of the dollars that were circulating in the world. In these circumstances, President Richard Nixon, on August 15 of that year, declared the dollar’s inconvertibility in gold. Since that date, the dollar has become a fully fiduciary currency (depends on the dollar’s confidence) and many authors now agree that the greatest support of the US dollar is actually the US war capacity.