Currency

What Chinese Currency Manipulation Looks Like

Eric Lotke | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business


Eric Lotke

As President Obama packs for China, I thought I'd show him a picture of how China is manipulating its currency.

The U.S. and China: The Defining Issue of Our Day

Zachary Karabell | Posted 11.13.2009 | World


Zachary Karabell

Americans still don't quite get it. China represents the first time in any American's lifetime that the United States is faced with a country that it cannot coerce. The problem of China for America is that it is a large but amorphous issue, unlike Afghanistan or health care, with its endless and acrimonious battles in the beltway. There is no vote, or quick resolution or unitary policy that will "solve" China. That allows it to linger as a concern, but not to shape action.

President Obama Brings 10,000 Manufacturing Jobs Back from China (Headlines We'd Like to See)

Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business


Gilbert B. Kaplan

We have neglected the manufacturing base of our economy in much the same way we have neglected financial regulation. There simply is no manufacturing policy in the United States.

Shrinking Dollar Sets Off Alarms Overseas, But Helps US

Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home


The dramatic decline of the U.S. dollar is aiding the American economic recovery but setting off alarm bells overseas, with corporate executives, poli...

Krugman Is Wrong: Why China Won't Revalue

Zachary Karabell | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business


Zachary Karabell

With China now accounting for nearly $1 trillion of American debt, the U.S. can't simply insist that it do something about its currency and expect action. Geithner has been right in not publicly calling out China.

Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It

Zachary Karabell | Posted 10.16.2009 | World


Zachary Karabell

Nothing will shape domestic life and prosperity in the United States more than the emergence of China as a global economic superpower.

There's Gold in Them Hills...I Mean, Vending Machines

Reyne Haines | Posted 11.08.2009 | Style


Reyne Haines

A German firm, TG-Gold Supr Markt, installed vending machines in the Frankfurt Airport. What does it dispense? You guessed it: gold bars!

Banana Ben Strikes Again

Michael Pento | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business


Michael Pento

The world's reserve currency can't inflate its way to prosperity. The danger of causing a disorderly decline of the dollar is very high.

China Is Being Smart On Trade, Will We Respond in Kind?

Dave Johnson | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business


Dave Johnson

Our country's decision-making processes appear to be under the control of a wealthy Wall Street few. And they are selling China the rope with which it is hanging us.

China and the United States -- a Marriage of Convenience

Zachary Karabell | Posted 08.28.2009 | World


Zachary Karabell

For a 21st century relationship, this looks increasingly like a 19th century marriage, one of convenience and necessity rather than love and affection.

New Money: Nine Virtual and Alternative Currencies

Piers Fawkes | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business


Piers Fawkes

Buying and selling still remains at the fore of the online world. Many entrepreneurial minds have envisioned new ways to facilitate our transactions, and bring business beyond cash and coin.

In Finance, History Often Written By Losers

Pablo Triana | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business


Pablo Triana

The world at large was being told something which was plainly not true. The real innovators were ignored, the faked ones were glorified.

Ron Paul "Liberty Dollars": Counterfeiters Indicted

The Hill | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics


A federal grand jury brought indictments Friday against the maker of an obscure currency supported by some libertarians....

Harry Potter and the Quest for the Enchanted Currency

Patt Morrison | Posted 05.14.2009 | Comedy


Patt Morrison

If the day comes that we do convert to a new global currency, here is how we bypass all the rancor and nationalism and factionalism: We embrace the Golden Galleons.

Debt is Not Money

Thom Hartmann | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business


Thom Hartmann

If followed, the Summers/Geithner policy can have only one of two outcomes: inflation or another, more serious crash. It's possible we could have both.

Local Currencies: Communities Printing Own Money To Keep Cash Flowing

Huffington Post/USA Today/Detroit News | Compiled by Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business


UPDATE: USA Today's reporting on local currencies gives the impression that this is a NEW phenomenon born from the recession. Rather, many of these...

Michele Bachmann: Obama Might Abandon The Dollar

The Plum Line | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics


GOP Rep Michele Bachmann, who is quite the colorful character, wants an answer: Is Obama secretly in favor of getting rid of the dollar and replacin...

Anti-Dollar Contagion Gains Pace

Michael J. Panzner | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business


Michael J. Panzner

As was the case with the now hobbled U.S. banking system, the dollar's fortunes have long depended on the confidence of others.

Obama's Big Bang Could Do the Trick

Diane Francis | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business


Diane Francis

What appears to be looming is a massive pre-emptive devaluation of the U.S. dollar as Team Obama readies itself to announce the "Big Bang."

UK Pound Drops To Record Low Against Euro

AP | EMILY FLYNN VENCAT | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business


LONDON — The British pound fell to a record low against the euro on Monday, flirting with one pound per euro as two gloomy economic forecasts st...

Europeans See Euro As Overtaking Dollar: FT Poll

Financial Times | Ralph Atkins | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business


The euro could overtake the dollar in global importance in the next five years, a large majority of continental Europeans believe, according to a poll...

Euro Hits 10th Anniversary, Seen As Fulfilling Promise

AP | MATT MOORE and GEORGE FREY | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business

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FRANKFURT, Germany — Ten years ago, Europe launched its grand experiment with a shared currency _ and watched it plunge in value before recoveri...

Recession Trend Tracker: What's Hot, What's Not

Jill Keto | Posted 01.21.2009 | Style


Jill Keto

Check back weekly for my "In and Out" chart following the most fabulous, ridiculous, and relevant events in the economy. ...

A Stock Market Held Hostage by the Dollar

Michael Pento | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business


Michael Pento

In today's artificial and perverse global economy the best short term medicine for the ailing markets would be a weakening U.S. currency

Iran Considers Lopping Zeros Off Currency

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business


TEHRAN, Iran — Iran is considering lopping three to four zeros off its currency, a top official said Monday, in an apparent effort to fight out-...