Us Currency

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

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


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

Arab States Have Launched Secret Moves To Stop Using U.S. Currency For Oil Trading

The Independent | Posted 10.06.2009 | World


By Robert Fisk | The Independent In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning - along with China, Rus...

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

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...

Roubini: China's Renminbi Will Likely Overtake US Dollar As World Currency

New York Times | NOURIEL ROUBINI | Posted 06.14.2009 | Business


THE 19th century was dominated by the British Empire, the 20th century by the United States. We may now be entering the Asian century, dominated by a ...

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...

Another GOP Rep. Signs Onto Bachmann Conspiracy Theory

The Washington Independent | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics


I was just talking to Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who's leaving Congress to run for governor of Michigan, about his proposed Parental Rights Amendme...

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...

Should The World's Reserve Currency Yield Zero Percent

Michael Pento | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business


Michael Pento

We must grow the economy by empowering the private sector. I would have hoped by now we learned that inflation doesn't solve anything.

If We're Going to Spend, Now's the Time To Do So

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 01.07.2009 | Business


Hale

I agree that given the severity of the current situation, massive government spending is pretty much our only hope right now. But arguing that it is a certainty is unwise.

US, China Headed For Possible Clash Over Currency

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business


BEIJING — China's chief trade envoy urged Washington on Thursday to stabilize its economy and protect Beijing's U.S. investments as the two side...

Rising Prices Stoke Inflation Fear

Washington Post | Neil Irwin | Posted 06.11.2008 | Business


Prices have been soaring long enough and fast enough, economists say, that the nation is at risk of a self-reinforcing cycle of inflation like that ex...

Euro, Yen Climb Against Dollar

AP | MATT MOORE and YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


FRANKFURT, Germany — Widespread concern about the outlook for the U.S. economy pushed the euro to a new record and the yen to 12-year highs agai...

Experts: Don't Fear The Weak Dollar

CNN/Money | David Ellis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Concerns about the weak dollar are mounting. But even as the greenback sinks to new lows against the euro and other global currencies, some experts sa...