China's Trade Minister: We Aren't Manipulating Our Currency
GENEVA — China rejected Monday the charge that it was keeping the yuan artificially low against the dollar, but rather blamed another "major economy...
GENEVA — China rejected Monday the charge that it was keeping the yuan artificially low against the dollar, but rather blamed another "major economy...
Damien Hoffman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
The cold hard truth for U.S. citizens is we must work to create a sustainable economy. We must set our sights on explosive industries such as alternative energy and health technology.
Eric C. Anderson | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
According to some pundits, Beijing's fixed exchange rate explains our trade imbalance with China and a end to this practice will aid the revival of manufacturing in America. Phooey.
Nathan Lewis | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business
Some people are saying that the dollar's days are numbered. Maybe so. Let's look at the dollar's long history, and see how we got to where we are today.
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...
Dave Johnson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
A falling, or "weak," dollar is great for American manufacturers. Conservatives, though, are trying to use the complexities of the relative value of the dollar in currency markets as an anti-Obama political issue.
Alan Schram | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
This will be a different kind of inflationary cycle. The dollar will decline, but Real estate prices will not be going up because few property owners can raise rents right now.
Marshall Auerback | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
It seems there isn't a day that goes by without more commentary on the demise of the dollar and the concomitant risk of a collapse of the world's reserve currency.
Garrett Johnson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
The dollar will not be allowed to collapse. Instead its decline will be managed. This will include violent corrections that will savage any dollar bear who is trying to make a quick buck.
Don McNay | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
I'm convinced that most of the mistakes made handling money result from lack of information and bad habits formed in childhood.
Max Keiser | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business
Finance critic Max Kesier says China and Russia are interested in collapsing the US economy by rejecting the dollar.
Brent Green | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living
Arthur Frommer's best-selling book published in 1957, Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, is quaintly incongruous 52 years later.
Dean Baker | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
Does Robert Rubin know that his strong dollar policy directly contradicts his fixation with low budget deficits? Either he is ignorant of the fundamentals of economics or he is dishonest.
Michael Pento | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
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.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment
If you are an Artist, Rand's books free you from the opinions of others and put ironclad gates around your sense of purpose, unlocking the freedom to create your art.
Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business
By not including the dollar in its international strategy and leadership, the U.S. misses out on an important way to create solidarity and loyalty among trade partners, and fair treatment for creditors.
Alan Schram | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business
The top 1% of incomes in the country paid 40% of all personal income tax in 2007. You might think this is fair, and maybe it is. However, higher taxes on the top income will spawn a different problem.
Alan Schram | Posted 09.02.2009 | Business
The Chinese economy is posting impressive growth of almost 8% annually, even as the rest of the world is going through excruciating economic pain. How is that resilience possible?
Diane Francis | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
The bilateral talks, or G-2, between the U.S. and China have resulted in little substantive progress. This is because there is a continuing, inexplicable failure on the part of the U.S. with other countries to pressure China to curb its currency manipulation.
AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
YEKATERINBURG, Russia — The leaders of four major emerging economies _ Russia, China, Brazil and India _ apparently failed Tuesday to reach cons...
nytimes.com | CLIFFORD J. LEVY | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
MOSCOW Leaders of some of the world's most powerful economies gathered Tuesday to discuss how they can exert more control over the global financial s...
Michael Pento | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business
As long as we continue to substitute spurious growth models for genuine growth policies we will continue to lose global power and influence.
Alan Schram | Posted 06.22.2009 | Business
Credit markets may not be completely healed, but they are in much better shape than they were three months ago.
Alan Schram | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
Debasing the currency is the best way to destroy a capitalist system. Unfortunately, the US has plenty of incentive to debase its currency and pay off the debts in cheaper dollars.
AP | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business