daveysmooth
12-02-2010, 03:33 AM
I really didn't see this coming...
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/02/123_60564.html
real6
12-02-2010, 03:48 AM
Check this link for more info:
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13594&highlight=amero&page=5
First the Euro, then the Afro, then the Amero and now 'The Asio!!!'
THEN GLOBAL CURRENCY!!!
http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/003330.html
A ToI editorial today bemoans the instability of the U.S. dollar and suggests creating a unified Asian currency as an alternative to the euro. Several years ago, Asiaweek suggested the same:
… it took Europe 10 years to produce the euro, building on three decades of efforts at economic integration. An Asian currency would probably have to be grounded in the yen, while China, because of the socialist foundations of its economy, might need to stay on the sidelines for some time. And the political, economic and cultural differences among Asian nations are greater than those within Western Europe. [Link]
I think the asio is a wonderful idea. Here’s how we’ll get there:
India and Pakistan agree to merge economies
Japan decides it’s willing to merge the yen with the rupee
China and India drop all vestiges of socialist economic intervention
Japan, China, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and so on get their economies into the same narrow band of inflation, debt and other key economic indicators
China, Korea and Japan allow an Asian Economic Zone common passport and migration without work permits
The asio countries choose a bland, centrally-located capital and characterless symbols for the currency which evoke no sense of history or nationalism
A new pan-Asian parliament and central bank are created
The parliament is held hostage to petty provincial issues by a nation deeply convinced of its innate cultural superiority
After an exhausting, ten-year march to referendums in each member country, one of the anchor states derails the process due to a split between economic progressives and fearful nativists
There’s a run on the bank to convert old rupees stashed in bedspreads and mattresses into asios before they become worthless
Australia lobbies hard to be included but is met with suspicion for being insufficiently Asian
At last, in 2016, people walking up to ATMs in Manila, Jakarta, Tokyo, Shanghai, Bombay, Lahore and Dhaka all withdraw the same asios
In the first week, bank tellers unfamiliar with the new bills are easily duped by gangs passing counterfeit bills
Consumers in India scratch their heads trying to figure out the buying power of the deflationary new currency (a thousand rupees becomes just a few asio)
Uzbekistan asks to join, but nativists complain it doesn’t really share Asian values, they dislike Uzbek immigrants, and the country’s human rights laws aren’t up to par
Japan, an anchor state, suffers a recession which drags down all other asio economies
If you read past the third bullet point, you either knew this was a satire or are far more hopeful than am I. So let’s start with baby steps and at least standardize the rupee symbol — several different versions exist in various regional languages.
bones
12-02-2010, 08:30 AM
this article is dated 2006,,, how interesting...