IMF Head Calls For New Global Currency

Globe and Mail | November 17, 2009
Alan Wheatley and Simon Rabinovitch

The imperative of greater global currency stability means the world can no longer rely, as it has done since the end of the gold standard, on a currency issued by a single country, the head of the IMF said on Tuesday.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, restated his view that a new global currency might evolve out of the special drawing right, the Fund's in-house unit of account.

“That probably has to be a basket,” Mr. Strauss-Kahn said of the eventual replacement for the dollar. “In a globalized world there is no domestic solution,” he told a forum.

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