China Currency

China's Latest Target in Its Trade War Against American Manufacturing: The U.S. Solar Industry

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: China Currency Manipulation, US China Trade, China Solar Panels, China Currency, China U.S. Trade, China Trade, China Solar Energy, Business News
Leo Hindery, Jr.

It's past time for America to stop being a spectator to global trade abuses, with our hands bound by either our diplomatic sensitivities or corporate short-sightedness in valuing short-term profits over the long-term viability of our national economy.

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Mitt Romney: The 'Currency Manipulator' Manipulator

John Wagner Givens | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: China Currency Manipulation, Mitt Romney, China Currency, Republican Presidential Candidates, China, Mitt Romney 2012, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney Economic Policy, Politics News
John Wagner Givens

What a good businessman should understand is that trade is not a zero-sum game and that the economies of China and the U.S. are more complementary than competitive.

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What If the Next Steve Jobs Is Chinese?

Dean Baker | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Manufacturing, Trade Deficit, Copyright, Patents, China Piracy, China Currency Manipulation, China Currency, U.S. China Trade, China Manufacturing, u.s. Innovation, China Innovation, Business News
Dean Baker

The United States continues to be at the forefront in innovation, but this likely will not always be the case. It is worth asking whether we should care.

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Capital Account Liberalization: Are There Lessons to be Learned?

Otaviano Canuto | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: China Currency, Capital Account, World Bank, World News
Otaviano Canuto

As developing countries continue to expand their global economic weight and their currencies start being used intensively abroad, the issue of capital account liberalization will come to the fore.

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How to Mend U.S.-China Ties

Jayshree Bajoria | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: US China Relations, Hu Jintao, Xi Jinping, U.S. China Trade, United States, Joe Biden, China Currency, China Military, Barack Obama, State Department, Syria, World News
Jayshree Bajoria

China's Vice President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States is being closely watched by policymakers to gain insight into China's likely future leader ahead of the transition beginning later this year.

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Kitchen Sink Laundry Lists and Broken Clocks

John Wagner Givens | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Corruption, Income Inequality, Rule of Law, Overheating, Democracy, Tibet, China Currency, China Human Rights, Uighurs, Land Grab, Intellectual Property, Trade Deficit, Unemployment, Inflation, Falun Gong, China Economy, China, Housing Bubble, World News
John Wagner Givens

Corruption perceptions indices suggest that China is not especially corrupt for its level of development and actually does better than many more developed countries, including Russia, Argentina, and Mexico.

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Fictional Davos Discussion Between Tim Geithner and China's He Yafei

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: General Electric, Wall Street Bailout, Trade Imbalance, Davos, Bank of America, Davos 2012, Aig, Fannie Mae, Free Trade, Manufacturing, United States, Cheap Labor, China Currency, Capitalism, Jeff Immelt, American Manufacturing, Manufacturing Jobs, Currency Manipulation, Freddie Mac, Bailout, Tim Geithner, State Capitalism, Quantitative Easing, Bear Stearns, China, Citigroup, World Economic Forum, Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat, World News
Howard Steven Friedman

The following conversation did not take place... but wouldn't it have been interesting if it did? Geithner: Glad I found you. We really need to talk...

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China: Continued Abusive Trade and Now a "Blue Water Navy"

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Navy, Wto, Trade, Tim Geithner, China, China Currency Manipulation, China Currency, China U.S. Trade, China Trade, Politics News
Leo Hindery, Jr.

The latest noteworthy example of China's protection of its industries -- and its 'rest of the world be damned' behavior -- is it's allowing its steel industry to duck yet another global environmental initiative.

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Treasury Dept. Declines To Name China As Currency Manipulator

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: China Currency Manipulation, China Currency Value, Business News, Currency Manipulation, Chinese-Currency-Appreciation, Chinese Currency, China Currency, Video, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday declined to label China a currency manipulator after seeing recent increases in the value of th...

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This Economic Depression Will Run Until 2031

Matthew Lynn | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Economy, Great Depression, Economic Crisis, European Debt Crisis, Eurozone, China Currency, Business News
Matthew Lynn

The great 19th century depression lasted for more than two decades. The 21st century equivalent won't necessarily last quite so long -- but it isn't going to be over soon.

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How China Is Beating The U.S.

Dr. Stephen Leeb | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Book News, China US Energy Consumption, China US Relations, China US Debt, Slidepollajax, China Currency, China Economy, China US, China Beating u.s., China Beating US, Books News
Dr. Stephen Leeb

The world is entering an era of resource scarcity. China's leadership recognizes this and is beating us to the punch. They're racing to accumulate critical and diminishing resources vital to every aspect of modern life, from growing and transporting food to making and running the computers

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Trade Policy: Countering the Walmart Effect

David Coates | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Fair Trade, Deindustrialization, Currency Manipulation, Middle Class Jobs, South Korea, Trade With China, Sherrod Brown, Trade Deals, Free Trade, American Wages, Race to the Bottom, China Trade, China Currency, Politics News
David Coates

Our current trade imbalance with China will not be fixed by currency manipulation alone, because American economic vulnerability is not rooted simply in the relative strength of the dollar.

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Michael McAuliff

Getting Tough With China Like 'Throwing Rocks At Dogs'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Video, Sherrod Brown, China Currency Manipulation, Chuck Schumer China, 112th Congress, Lindsey Graham China, Lindsey Graham, China Currency, Sherry Brown, Sherrod Brown China, China, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of senators hammered China as a nation of "cheaters" Wednesday and laid down a challenge to House Speaker John Boehne...

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Is Herman Cain Any Good on Trade? You Try Figuring It Out

Ian Fletcher | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Free Trade, Nafta, Cafta, Herman Cain, Trade Deficit, Trade, Economic Crisis, Chinese Economy, Herman Cain Presidential Campaign, China Currency, Recession, Politics News
Ian Fletcher

Maybe Herman Cain, the latest boomlet in the GOP presidential race, will be elected president. Or maybe his 15 minutes of fame have just arrived. Either way, it behooves us to see what he thinks about America's trade mess.

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Déjà Vu China

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: China Currency Manipulation, U.S. China Trade, U.S. China Manufacturing, China Currency, China Trade, China Manufacturing, Politics News
Jerry Jasinowski

All of a sudden Congress, or at least the Senate, is on the brink of enacting some sort of legislation intended to retaliate against China for its currency manipulation. For me, to borrow a line from Yogi Berra, it is "déjà vu all over again."

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Krugman: U.S. Should Hold China Accountable For Undervaluing Currency

The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Dollar Value, Business News, U.S. Economy, Paul Krugman, U.S. Dollar, China Currency, Business News

The dire state of the world economy reflects destructive actions on the part of many players. Still, the fact that so many have behaved badly shouldn...

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Trade With China Destroys American Jobs, Drags Down U.S. Wages: Study

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Trade Deficit, Trade, Germany, U.S. China Trade, China Currency Manipulation, Jobs, China Currency, China Economy, Barack Obama, China, China Trade Surplus, Video, Business News

The explosion in Chinese exports in recent years has resulted in a flood of inexpensive goods for American consumers. It may have also come at a large...

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Why a Strong Dollar Is a Terrible Idea

Ian Fletcher | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Currency Manipulation, China Currency, Strong Dollar, Weak Dollar, Dollar, Currencies, Business News
Ian Fletcher

The dollar needs to be dispassionately evaluated for the costs and benefits of any particular price it bears, not misunderstood as a totem of national vitality.

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What The United States Can Learn from Japan's Uniqlo

TIME.com | ROYA WOLVERSON | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Uniqlo United States, Uniqlo, Uniqlo Japan, Tadasha Yanai, Mckinsey Quarterly, Unemployment, China Currency, Tim Geithner, Business News

Rich country, rising unemployment, sluggish growth, big debts. Sound familiar? Japan's notorious "lost decade," the long stretch of economic stagnatio...

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Should America Stiff China?

Ian Fletcher | Posted 07.15.2011

Read More: Debt, Intellectual Property, Counterfeiting, China Currency, China, China Economy, Business News
Ian Fletcher

Ethically, does America have the right to stiff China and repudiate our roughly $3 trillion in trade obligations? Frankly, we quite arguably do.

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China Tells U.S. to Mind Our Own Business -- And We Should

Dave Johnson | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Currency, Manufacturing, China, Trade, US China Relations, Jobs, Strategic and Economic Dialogue, China Currency, Free Trade, Business News
Dave Johnson

It is time for us to engage in our own sovereign duty to protect American companies, workers and jobs from the trade manipulations and schemes others engage in.

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State-Owned Firms, Not Currency, Is Biggest Chinese Threat, Business Group Says

Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: State Owned Companies, Global Economy, Chamber of Commerce, US Companies, United States, State Owned Firms, Obama Administration, US Government, China Currency, Business News

WASHINGTON (Doug Palmer) - The United States should focus less on China's currency practices and more on the threat to U.S. companies posed by Bei...

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Exports and Jobs: Less Than Half the Story

Robert E. Scott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Currency Manipulation, Multinational Corporations, Small Business, Trade, President Obama, Business News, Jobs, China Currency, State of the Union, China, Business News
Robert E. Scott

It's time to end unfair trade practices, and to do that the President needs a new crop of advisors who care more about American job creation than outsourcing and MNC profits.

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Manufacturing: Making Things in America for Global Trade

Patrick McFadden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Trade Industry, Trade Industry, China Trade, Steel Industry, Nucor, China Currency, China, Business News
Patrick McFadden

To think the U.S. steel industry, or Nucor in particular, simply blames China for its sagging fortunes greatly distorts reality.

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What's Behind China's Economic Policies

Tay Yoshitani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Currency Manipulation, U.S. China Trade, China Currency, China Trade, China Economy, China, World News
Tay Yoshitani

China will almost certainly continue to make its economic presence felt over the next decade; even though this concerns many players in the global markets, it's not in anyone's best interest to condemn Beijing.

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