{"id":387014,"date":"2018-11-29T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T06:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-u-s-shooting-itself-with-steps-that-harm-dollar-putin-says\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T06:54:11","slug":"prison-planet-com-u-s-shooting-itself-with-steps-that-harm-dollar-putin-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-u-s-shooting-itself-with-steps-that-harm-dollar-putin-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb U.S. \u2018Shooting Itself\u2019 With Steps That Harm Dollar, Putin Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-11-28\/u-s-shooting-itself-with-steps-that-harm-dollar-putin-says?srnd=premium-europe\"><strong>Bloomberg<\/strong><\/a><br \/>November 28, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian President Vladimir Putin said the U.S. is \u201cshooting itself not in the foot but a bit higher\u201d with sanctions and other steps that undermine confidence in the dollar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aren\u2019t ditching the dollar, the dollar is ditching us,\u201d he told the VTB Capital forum in Moscow Wednesday. \u201cThe instability of dollar payments is creating a desire for many global economies to find alternative reserve currencies and create settlement systems independent of the dollar. We\u2019re not the only ones doing it, believe me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putin said recent steps to find alternatives to the dollar in trade have been paying off, noting that a contract to deliver S-400 air-defense missiles to Turkey \u2014 which has been criticized by the U.S. \u2014 was conducted without using the greenback. Russia is also working with partner countries to develop an alternative to the SWIFT financial-messaging system after threats that the country\u2019s access could be targeted through sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been reducing its holdings of Treasuries and trying to find alternatives to the dollar in trade to protect itself from increasingly unpredictable U.S. sanctions. On Tuesday, the country also sold a foreign-currency bond in euros for the first time in more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-11-28\/u-s-shooting-itself-with-steps-that-harm-dollar-putin-says?srnd=premium-europe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2018  at  8:13 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/u-s-shooting-itself-with-steps-that-harm-dollar-putin-says.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/u-s-shooting-itself-with-steps-that-harm-dollar-putin-says.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BloombergNovember 28, 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin said the U.S. is \u201cshooting itself not in the foot but a bit higher\u201d with sanctions and other steps that undermine confidence in the dollar. \u201cWe aren\u2019t ditching the dollar, the dollar is ditching us,\u201d he told the VTB Capital forum in Moscow Wednesday. \u201cThe instability of dollar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}