CFR Pushes For Regional Monetary Integration

Lee Rogers
Rogue Government
October 17, 2007

The traitors at the The Council of Foreign Relations are set to release a book entitled Regional Monetary Integration. The book is written by Council on Foreign Relations member Peter B. Kenen and Ellen Meade an Associate Professor at American University. The book analyzes the prospects of regional monetary integration around the world and what it would mean for the United States. Below is a synopsis of this soon to be released book direct from the Council on Foreign Relations.

"This book surveys the prospects for regional monetary integration in various parts of the world. Beginning with a brief review of the theory of optimal currency areas, it goes on to examine the structure and functioning of the European Monetary Union, then turns to the prospects for monetary integration elsewhere in the world—North America, South America, and East Asia. Such cooperation may take the form of full-fledged monetary unions or looser forms of monetary cooperation. Regional Monetary Integration emphasizes the economic and institutional requirements for successful monetary integration, including the need for a single central bank in the case of a full-fledged monetary union and the corresponding need for multinational institutions to safeguard the bank’s independence and assure its accountability. The book concludes with a chapter on the implications of monetary integration for the United States and the U.S. dollar."