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China's Trade Minister: We Aren't Manipulating Our Currency

AP | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Yuan, Trade Deficit, Dollar, Weak Dollar, Currency, U.S. China Trade, China Currency, China Economy, China, Business News

GENEVA — China rejected Monday the charge that it was keeping the yuan artificially low against the dollar, but rather blamed another "major economy...

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Obama's China Trip Ends; Currency, Trade Issues Unresolved

guardian.co.uk | Tania Branigan | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Trade Deficit, Yuan, Obama China, Hu Jintao Obama, Hu Jintao, Currency, China Currency, US Currency, China, Barack Obama, Great Wall of China, Business News

Speaking before his meeting today with the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, he told reporters that the American relationship with China was deepening beyo...

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What Chinese Currency Manipulation Looks Like

Eric Lotke | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Currency, Jobs, Current Account Deficit, Currency Manipulation, China, Economy, Trade Deficit, Business News
Eric Lotke

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

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

Zachary Karabell | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

Read More: World Trade Organization, Global Economy, Economy, Washington, Beijing, Currency, Obama, China, World News
Zachary Karabell

Americans still don't quite get it. There is no vote, quick resolution, or unitary policy that will "solve" China. That allows it to linger as a concern, but not to shape action.

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

Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Digital TV, International Trade, Unemployment, President Obama, Currency, Jobs, Manufacturing, Subsidies, Election Results, China, Business News
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.

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Shrinking Dollar Sets Off Alarms Overseas, But Helps US

Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Uk, Recovery, Rate Change, Economy, Currency, Globalization, Pound, Recession, Euro, Economic Recovery, Yen, Exchange Rate, Globalisation, Dollar, Japan, China, Home News

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

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Krugman Is Wrong: Why China Won't Revalue

Zachary Karabell | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Trade Deficit, Beijing, Federal Budget Deficit, Weak Dollar, Currency, Free Trade, Paul Krugman, Timothy Geithner, China, Business News
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.

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

Zachary Karabell | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Currency, Free Trade, U.S. Dollar, Timothy Geithner, United States, China, Barack Obama, North Korea, World News
Zachary Karabell

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

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

Reyne Haines | Posted 11.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Currency, Gold, Antiques, Collecting, Coins, Vending Machines, Style News
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!

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Banana Ben Strikes Again

Michael Pento | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: National Debt, Global Currency, Federal Reserve, Dollar, Currency, Business News, China, Ben Bernanke, Price of Oil, Business News
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.

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

Dave Johnson | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Currency, Trade, China, Business News
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.

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China and the United States -- a Marriage of Convenience

Zachary Karabell | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: Currency, U.S. Dollar, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Strategic and Economic Dialogue, United States, U.S. Debt to China, China, World News
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.

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New Money: Nine Virtual and Alternative Currencies

Piers Fawkes | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Currency, Internet, Community, World of Warcraft, Green Living, Virtual Worlds, Money, China, Business News
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.

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In Finance, History Often Written By Losers

Pablo Triana | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime-Trading-Loss, Interest Rates, Wall Street Bailout, Commodities, Wall Street, Stock Prices, Currency, Value at Risk, The City of London, Business News
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.

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Ron Paul "Liberty Dollars": Counterfeiters Indicted

The Hill | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Currency, Liberty Dollars, North Carolina, Bernard Von NotHaus, Libertarians, Ron Paul, Politics News

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

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Harry Potter and the Quest for the Enchanted Currency

Patt Morrison | Posted 05.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Currency, Harry Potter, Golden Galleons, Global Currency, Harry Potter Money, Comedy News
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.

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Debt is Not Money

Thom Hartmann | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Timothy Geithner, Lawrence Summers, Thom Hartmann, Currency, Debt, Money, Reaganomics, Business News
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.

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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

Read More: Berkshares, Huffington Post Local Currencies, Site:www.huffingtonpost.com 2009 Communities Print Own, Detroit Cheers, Communities Print Their Own Currency to Keep Cash Flowing, Currency, Print Own Money, Communities Printing Money, US Currency, Detroit Printing New Money Photos, Recession, Ithaca Money Printing, Currency Printing, Slideshow, Local Currency in Detroit, Business News

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...

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Michele Bachmann: Obama Might Abandon The Dollar

The Plum Line | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary, Michele Bachmann, U.S. Currency, Tim Geithner, President Obama, Currency, Michelle Bachman, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Michele Bachmanobama, Politics News

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...

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Anti-Dollar Contagion Gains Pace

Michael J. Panzner | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Geopolitics, Russia, Currency, International Monetary Fund, China, Dollar, China Reserve Currency, Super Reserve Currency China, China Currency, Worlds-Reserve-Currency, Reserve Currency, China Super Reserve Currency, China Super Currency, China Us Debt, Business News
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.

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Obama's Big Bang Could Do the Trick

Diane Francis | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Bang, Unfreezing Bank Credit, Economy, Financial Reform, Currency, Property Value Crisis, Mexico, Banking Crisis, Devaluation, Obama, Mortgage Crisis, U..S. Economy, Real Estate Bailout, Bailout, Bank Credit, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Bank Crisis, Rescue, Foreclosure, American Economy, Business News
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."

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UK Pound Drops To Record Low Against Euro

AP | EMILY FLYNN VENCAT | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business

Read More: UK Pound, Euro, Currency, Business News

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...

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Europeans See Euro As Overtaking Dollar: FT Poll

Financial Times | Ralph Atkins | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Currency, US Dollar, Euro, Euro Dollar, Dollar, Business News

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...

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Euro Hits 10th Anniversary, Seen As Fulfilling Promise

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

Read More: Euro, Currency, Business News

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

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

Jill Keto | Posted 01.21.2009 | Style

Read More: jill_keto, Investing, daniel_keto, Economics, Finance, Economy, saving_money, Financial Crisis, trend_forecasting, practical_chic, personal_finance, mortgage_crisis, greater_depression, Recession, Currency, U.S. Dollar, Auto Bailout, Bernard Madoff, Real Estate, Style News
Jill Keto

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

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