Dissing the Dollar in Davos, Russian Style

The Russian's want to ditch the dollar as the world's reserve. On Wednesday in Davos, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, during a speech, called for efforts to "facilitate the emergence of several reserve currencies."

Given current Fed money printing and the likely collapse of the dollar as a result, Putin's proposal may eventually gain traction internationally. There's already a good bit of de facto movement away from the dollar already.

And, note, while this is all brewing, Obama/Geithner seem to want to hasten the collapse of the dollar by calling on China to stop supporting the dollar! Madness. .

Putin wasn't the only Russian dissing the dollar in Davos. On Thursday German Gref, a former Russian Economics Minister, who is now CEO of Russia's largest bank--state-owned-- Sberbank, proposed during a panel discussion, something of a thigh slapper. In the absence of any serious competitors to the dollar, he advocated international control of U.S. monetary policy.

Since the U.S. seems to want to bring democracy to the world, why shouldn't the international community attempt to bring responsible money management to the Federal Reserve? There's kind of an international poetic justice to this Gref proposal, however, I am not planning on staying up late at night waiting for this to happen.