So, although dollar bonds and, increasingly, dollar equities are a large part of these countries sovereign wealth accounts, most of the dollar securities that they hold are not needed to finance trade imbalances.

Most of these funds are now invested in dollar securities.

Diversification away from dollar assets is the advice of the day.

So the good news is that dollar investments are safe.

American families are hurting, and elected officials want to pin the blame on China, thereby deflecting attention from the difficult task of rebuilding saving, restoring competitiveness, and living within the country s means.

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As a result, holders of dollar denominated assets should be looking forward to two alternative scenarios.

The issuance of dollar bonds was a major source of abuse, with speculators buying dollar debt at the official exchange rate, selling it for greenbacks, and then exchanging them for bolivars at a much higher rate on the black market.

If foreign holders of dollar bonds become concerned that the unsustainability of America s situation will lead to higher interest rates and a weaker dollar, they will want to sell dollar bonds.

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Low savings countries cannot easily adjust without an equivalent adjustment in high savings countries, because their low savings rates may have been caused by high savings abroad.

Savings are, of course, no bad thing.

One is that domestic saving in the US increases.

And that raises serious questions about the wisdom of China s massive investments in dollar denominated assets.

A distinction is drawn between realized gains and losses resulting through the conduct of transactions in other than United States dollars and gains and losses resulting from the re statement of non United States dollar assets and liability values to an equivalent dollar value as at 31 December 2004.

This story is fundamentally different from the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses, and it leads to dramatically different policies.

Americans learned these lessons the hard way.

If progress is not made in reducing the projected fiscal imbalances and limiting the growth of bank reserves, reduced demand for dollar assets could cause the dollar to fall more rapidly and the interest rate on dollar securities to rise.

The ratio of savings to gross domestic product has risen.

b) Establishment of cooperatives for savings and loan services

For nearly a decade, capital from high savings countries like Germany flowed to low savings countries like Spain.

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In neither scenario does it make sense to hold huge amounts of dollar denominated assets today.

With US government debt repayment now in play, the very concept of dollar based riskless assets is in doubt.

But interest rates on dollar assets are given in world markets independently of what China does.

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And savings are particularly good for developing countries.

Domestic savings, however, remain a major constraint.

The puzzle of the global savings glut may live on for several years to come.

Inflation in the US or Europe would reduce the purchasing value of the dollar bonds or euro bonds.

If they perceive that the dollar and dollar bonds have become riskier, they will want to change the distribution of assets in their portfolios.

Their plight and rights are almost universally ignored.

But savings will need to be allocated far more efficiently than in the past.

Finally, Spaniards could borrow excess German savings and increase consumption and investment.

They argue that current account balances reflect national savings and investment rates.

But China will do so by providing stimulus to internal demand, thereby weaning itself from relying on dollar based assets.

That predictable dollar decline makes the relative return on holding dollar bonds even lower than the interest rate differential alone implies.