Talk:Petrodollar recycling

Faulty premise
I disagree with the premise presented in the secong paragraph of this article:

To acquire these dollars, Japan must sell goods and services to the U.S. economy. The Japanese build a Honda to sell to the U.S. The U.S. federal reserve prints a certain amount of dollars and gives these to the Japanese in exchange for the Honda. The Japanese buy oil from Saudi Arabia using these dollars. The Saudis take the dollars and reinvest them in the Federal Reserve Bank of the U.S., and from then on they will only be used as a reserve currency. Therefore, ''all the U.S. had to do to acquire a Honda, was to print dollars. In essence, it has its very own money tree. The result of this is that the total debt of the United States is somewhere in the region of $8.4 trillion and increasing by $80 million per hour.''

Honda does not sell products to the U.S. economy -- it sells to individual consumers. These consumers exchanged hours of labor, financial risk, or other appreciable capital (represented by U.S. dollars) to Honda for their product. 131.6.84.67 15:50, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Belated thanks. The nonsensical paragraph no longer appears in the article. —Patrug (talk) 05:43, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Canada?
Is Canada, or has Canada become(ing) like a Petrodollar country as seen by the huge drop in the CAD$ value along with the drop in oil prices?

It is a generally reoccurring sentiment around fellow Canadians. Just wondering if this is worth exploring and expanding to include other than the OPEC countries. --Skippingrock (talk) 15:22, 14 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Good question. Oil exports are certainly important for Canada, but its economy is more diverse and better balanced than the OPEC members. So, Canada doesn't need to invest large amounts of oil surpluses into other countries. The "Petrodollar Profusion" reference, http://www.economist.com/node/21553424, indicates that in the last big petrodollar wave, the most-important surpluses were from OPEC & Norway & Russia. I've added this information to our article, along with a sentence about Soviet foreign aid and a photo highlighting Russian petrodollar recycling. Thanks for reminding everyone that it's not just OPEC. —Patrug (talk) 20:40, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

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Russian investment in Chelsea F.C.

 * As confirmed in the BBC reference, Britain's Chelsea Football Club was purchased in 2003 by the businessman whose fortune came primarily from the Sibneft oil company. This is a classic, notable, and photogenic example of petrodollar recycling from Russia (the leading non-OPEC oil producer), added in response to Skippingrock's recent helpful comment on this page. The current (expanded) caption makes clear that the image isn't "unrelated to the article" as you indicated in your edit summary. If you have a better photo to illustrate Russian petrodollar recycling, or an improved caption for the Chelsea FC photo, please feel free to propose it. If not, please let this photo continue.

Also, to minimize the risk of earning your fifth block for edit-warring, please don't WP:Wikihound by reverting my edits to completely unrelated articles. —Patrug (talk) 20:52, 29 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Patrug Please stop the personal attacks, please comment on edit, not editors. The reason I deleted the image was because it seemed that the length of images in the page exceeded that of the article itself. I planned to place the information in one of the article sections as an example. I plan to do the same for some images, or simply reduce the size instead, something might as well work on a personal sandbox before making the change if you will. And regarding the edits on Tan line, I have left you a message here. (N0n3up (talk) 21:59, 29 July 2016 (UTC))


 * I've commented only on your problematic edits, not made personal attacks.
 * "Overflow of images" is quite a different reason than your previously stated "image unrelated to article." As a simple way to address the overflow, I just shrank & moved most of the images to a separate section below the article text, trying to follow WP:Balancing aspects and WP:PIC and WP:Gallery guidelines and "avoiding similar or repetitive images". Petrodollars are a difficult topic that's consistently getting thousands of page views per month, and very few of our readers (or our fellow editors, for that matter) understand international payment balances or currency markets or reserve banking. For example, see the "Faulty premise" discussion above, or the goldbug conspiracy theories that dominated WP's petrodollar material until recently. So, a variety of real-world photos help readers develop some intuition for a concept that would otherwise seem too abstract and vaguely sinister & Nixonian. If you think adding a bit more text would help improve the article's WP:Understandability further, then give it a shot.
 * I also added two mainstream press reports that explicitly describe Chelsea FC as a "petrodollar" sports club, to prove it's an important example that I didn't invent.
 * I hope these revisions address your concerns as you've stated them. Further suggestions are welcome, especially if they involve adding encyclopedic content rather than removing it. Thanks. —Patrug (talk) 06:29, 1 August 2016 (UTC)


 * This is perfect. Thanks Patrug. (N0n3up (talk) 01:11, 2 August 2016 (UTC))

Appreciation for other important contributors
Thank you both for the efficient "Good Article" and "Did You Know" reviews and helpful feedback. Special thanks also to: I think we've ended up with a quite respectable article for this important topic in the global economy, helping to educate thousands of readers every month. Thanks again. -Patrug (talk) 08:30, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Ibrahim Oweiss, for pioneering the topic in 1973;
 * User:Capitalistroadster, for creating the first solid version of this article and rescuing it from deletion in 2005;
 * User:Agamemnus, for launching the 2016 improvement effort with pivotal edits at the old Petrodollar & Talk:Petrodollar pages.

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This article needs expansion
This article is interesting, but it's a bit dense, and misses most of the crucial points about the petrodollar. I'd like to open a conversation about how to improve the article.

It does not mention the 1974 agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia, in which Saudi Arabia agreed to sell their oil in US dollars and invest their surplus oil revenue in US treasuries, in exchange for US security guarantees for the House of Saud. This is what most people have in mind when they talk about the "petrodollar system". This was related to the 1971 suspension of the US dollar's interchangeability with gold and the 1973 oil crisis.

There is evidence that preservation of the petrodollar system was one of the key reasons for the invasion of Iraq (Saddam Hussein threatened to begin trading oil for euros instead of dollars) and the destruction of Libya (Gaddafi proposed a gold-backed pan-African currency, the afro, and suggested that it could be used for oil transactions instead of the dollar). Understanding the petrodollar system, then, is a key piece of the puzzle for understanding geopolitics over the past 50 years, but you would not know that by reading the current article.

Furthermore, the 1974 agreement was recently allowed to expire.

This article either fails to mention any of this, or vaguely alludes to it in passing. I do not think this article can be regarded as "GA" until the article is expanded to cover these critical facts in more detail. Philomathes2357 (talk) 22:36, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Your link refers to MSN's syndicated copy of an article on "TipRanks.com", which TipRanks seems to have silently deleted. A PolitiFact analysis of similar headlines deemed them fake news. Ditto regarding the existence of a 1974 agreement on oil pricing. At best, PolitiFact found a 1974 agreement for a Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation, but not any petrodollar system directly. I can't speak as to the Iraq or Libya aspects of your comment.  Cyber  cobra (talk) 21:28, 28 June 2024 (UTC)