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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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US-China Relations: Getting Beyond Political Rhetoric

Damien Hoffman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, China, Politics, Economy, Trade Deficit, Green Jobs, Yuan, Dollar, Manufacturing Jobs, Business News
Damien Hoffman

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.

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Meaningless Fervor Over China's Exchange Rate Policy

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Exchange Rate, Yuan, Obama Foreign Policy, China, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Dollar, Economic Recovery, Rupee, Recession, Won, Business News
Eric C. Anderson

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.

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A Brief History of the Dollar

Nathan Lewis | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Dollar Value, Gold, US Dollar, Dollar, Business News
Nathan Lewis

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.

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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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Palin vs. Krugman on the Dollar -- Who Is Right?

Dave Johnson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Paul Krugman, Yuan, China Currency, Dollar, Sarah Palin, Business News
Dave Johnson

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.

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The Best Risk Reward Proposition

Alan Schram | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Dow Jones, Inflation, Dollar, Business News, Warren Buffett, Financial Crisis, Real Estate, Saving Money, Wal-Mart, S&P 500, Business News
Alan Schram

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.

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The US Dollar: Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Marshall Auerback | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Fed, Credit Crisis, Default, Inflation, Dollar, Interest Rate, Depreciation, Business News
Marshall Auerback

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.

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No Love for Uncle Buck

Garrett Johnson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Gold, Reserve Currency, Weak Dollar, Dollar, Financial Crisis, Gold Currency, Dollar Currency, Wall Street, Business News
Garrett Johnson

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.

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It's Time to Teach Children About Money

Don McNay | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

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Don McNay

I'm convinced that most of the mistakes made handling money result from lack of information and bad habits formed in childhood.

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Interview With Max Keiser: China and Russia Don't Want to Finance American Debt Anymore

Max Keiser | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Max Keiser, Article, Economy, Gold Bullion, Russia, Dollar, Robert Fisk, American Debt, Activist, China, Death, Business News
Max Keiser

Finance critic Max Kesier says China and Russia are interested in collapsing the US economy by rejecting the dollar.

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Baby Boomers: 1969 - Europe on 5 Dollars a Day; 2009 - Europe on 500 Dollars a Day

Brent Green | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: King David, Adventure and Educational Travel, Dollar, Europe, Rome, Goliath the Gallery of the Accademia, Michaelangelo, Venice, Euro, Baby Boomers, Recession, Italy During Recession, Italy, Travel During Recession, Living News
Brent Green

Arthur Frommer's best-selling book published in 1957, Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, is quaintly incongruous 52 years later.

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Big Deficit, Bob Rubin, and the Strong Dollar

Dean Baker | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Trade Deficit, Federal Budget Deficit, Dollar, US Dollar, Robert Rubin, Business News
Dean Baker

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.

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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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Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Bob Marley, Evil, Bubbles, Bill Gates, Architecture, Dick Cheney, Dollar, Greed, Empathy, John Lennon, Wall Street, Ayn Rand, Bible, Artists, Morality, The Fountainhead, Republicans, Alan Greenspan, Ethics, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism, Republican Party, Jimi Hendrix, Politics News
Robbie Gennet

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.

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Who Isn't John Galt?

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Empathy, Artists, Dick Cheney, Ayn Rand, Dollar, Ethics, Republican Party, Greed, Bob Marley, Bible, Architecture, Bill Gates, Capitalism, Evil, John Lennon, Human Rights, Wall Street, The Fountainhead, Alan Greenspan, Atlas Shrugged, Jimi Hendrix, Bubbles, Republicans, Entertainment News
Robbie Gennet

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.

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Should the United States Worry About the Dollar?

Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: International Trade, Dollar Value, Treasury Department, Japan, China, Dollar, Business News
Georges Ugeux

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.

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Income Inequality: Can We Tax Our Way Out of Trouble?

Alan Schram | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Taxes, Financial Crisis, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Income Inequality, Dollar, Business News
Alan Schram

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.

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Trouble Looming in China

Alan Schram | Posted 09.02.2009 | Business

Read More: World Trade Organization, Great Recession, Dollar, Business News, Credit Crisis, China, Saving Money, Financial Crisis, Business News
Alan Schram

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?

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China's Dollar Scam Must End

Diane Francis | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Walmart, Currency Manipulation, Clinton, Trade, Dollar, Secretary of Treasury, Imf, Market Manipulation, Obama, Japan, Weak Dollar, China, China-Currency-Manipulation, China Currency, World News
Diane Francis

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.

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BRIC Nations Meet, Call For Monetary Diversity

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Economy, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, India, Russia, China, Brazil, Bric, Bric Nations, Dollar, United States Dollar, BRIC Summit, Dmitry Medvedev, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Hu Jintao, Manmohan Singh, World News

YEKATERINBURG, Russia — The leaders of four major emerging economies _ Russia, China, Brazil and India _ apparently failed Tuesday to reach cons...

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BRIC: Emerging Economic Powers Meet In Russia -- Western Powers Not Invited

nytimes.com | CLIFFORD J. LEVY | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Global Financial Crisis, India, Bric Russia, Dollar, Brazil, US Currency, Bric, China, World News

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...

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The Plummeting Dollar Prosperity Plan

Michael Pento | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Falling Currency, Gdp, Economy, Weak Dollar, Dollar, Economic Crisis, Federal Reserve, US Dollar, Financial Asset Prices, Bosnia, China, Business News
Michael Pento

As long as we continue to substitute spurious growth models for genuine growth policies we will continue to lose global power and influence.

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Are Credit Markets Back to Normal?

Alan Schram | Posted 06.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Dollar, Money Market Funds, Wall Street, TED Spread, Bonds, Business News, Credit Crunch, Libor, Saving Money, Credit Markets, Tarp, Financial Crisis, Business News
Alan Schram

Credit markets may not be completely healed, but they are in much better shape than they were three months ago.

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Is Hyper Inflation Coming?

Alan Schram | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Dollar, Deficit, Inflation, Financial Crisis, Business News
Alan Schram

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.

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