Dollars will come home when overseas demand to hold them drops

 Spare Dollars by Alasdair Macleod

It is very interesting that Alasdair mentions that there is increasingly little need for the Petrodollar market, since most of the Middle East's oil is going East and not West. I mentioned this in my latest essay as a possible end of the dollar as the world's premier reserve currency. To wit, the following quotes:

"To this we should add the Middle East, most of whose oil is now exported to China, India and South-East Asia, making the petro-dollar potentially redundant as well."--Alasdair Macleod

"... it is possible that the eurodollar and petrodollar markets could end, forcing holders of US dollars to exchange them for goods and services in the one part of the world that must accept dollars."--Pat Barron

There is "the potential tsunami of dollars just waiting for the opportunity to return to the good old US of A."--Alasdair Macleod

And when those dollars come home, the Fed's options will be limited between recession and higher prices. There are no other options.