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Why a Strong Dollar Is a Terrible Idea

Ian Fletcher | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Currency Manipulation, China Currency, Strong Dollar, Weak Dollar, Dollar, Currencies, Business News

The dollar needs to be dispassionately evaluated for the costs and benefits of any particular price it bears, not misunderstood as a totem of national vitality.

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H&M Blames High Costs For 18 Percent Profit Fall

AP | By LOUISE NORDSTROM | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Inflation, Hennes & Mauritz, H&M, Weak Dollar, Dollar, Karl-Johan Persson, Revenue, Great Britain, Free Trade, United States, Stockholm, Sweden, China, Business News

STOCKHOLM -- Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB on Wednesday blamed higher procurement costs as well as campaigns and special offers for an ...

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Stiglitz To Obama: The Fed's Latest Move Will Hurt Other Nations

WSJ | Alex Frangos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Currency Manipulation, Joseph Stiglitz, Joseph Stiglitz News, Weak Dollar, Fed, Fed QE2, Federal Reserve, Weak Dollar Policy, Currency Devaluation, Business News

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, dismissing the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing as a "beggar-thy-neighbor" strategy of currency de...

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Gold Passes $1,400 An Ounce

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Price of Gold, Weak Dollar, Value of Gold, US Economy, Industrial Metals, Business News

NEW YORK — Gold prices surged above $1,400 an ounce Tuesday as a weaker dollar pushed investors into the safe haven of precious metals. Gold al...

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Robert Lenzner: QE2 Hurts The Dollar

Forbes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Qe2, Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Quantitative Easing, Ben Bernanke Qe2, Robert Lenzner, Ben Bernanke, Weak Dollar, Business News

Ben Bernanke has no sure fire policy solution for economic stagnation. QE2, the $1 trillion quantitative easing expected, hoped for, prayed for, goss...

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PHOTOS: 12 Countries For The Non-Frugal Traveler To Visit Now

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Weak Dollar, Currency Exchange Rate, Dollar, Travel News

When deciding where to travel abroad, an obvious point to consider is where your dollar will go farthest. For years, a European getaway was fun and ec...

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Why It's Foolish to Weaken the Dollar to Create Jobs

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Weak Dollar, Dollar, Economy, Jobs, Business News

It's no big accomplishment to create jobs by getting poorer. Our goal isn't just more jobs. It's more jobs that pay enough to improve our living standards.

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The Next Thing to Go Wrong

Alan Schram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Deficit, Debt, Inflation, Weak Dollar, Business News, Oil, Financial Crisis, Gold, S&P 500, Business News

Investors who should be looking for safe haven are, oddly, convinced that Washington will honor its long term fiscal obligations. That false sense of security is dangerous, because we are vulnerable to a crisis of confidence in the dollar.

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Where Did Inflation Go?

Alan Schram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Deficit, Inflation, Wall St Crisis, Weak Dollar, Business News, Financial Crisis, Purchasing-Power, Business News

For those concerned about incipient inflation resulting from the gargantuan monetary expansion and the budget deficits we are still running, the lack of inflation is confounding.

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With the Euro Falling, US Recovery Is Under Threat

Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government Debt, Dollar vs Euro, Euro Dollar, Weak Dollar, Euro, Business News

It's the US that should be concerned about the effect if the euro moves too far and too fast. The euro depreciates, the dollar strengthens, and our path to recovery starts to run more uphill.

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Krugman Is Wrong: Why China Won't Revalue

Zachary Karabell | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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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Dollar Falls On News Of Widening Trade Deficit

AP | TALI ARBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Trade Deficit, Falling Dollar, Trade Deficit, Weak Dollar, Economy, Dollar Value, U.S. Dollar, Business News

NEW YORK — The dollar dropped Friday after the government said the trade deficit widened in September, while the 16-nation eurozone officially e...

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Traders Fear A Stregthening Economy: Low Rates And Weak Dollar Have Helped Fuel Rally

AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Stock Market Rally, Weak Dollar, Stock Market, Fed, Federal Reserve, Macro Risk Advisors, Economic Recovery, Business News

NEW YORK — Be careful what you wish for. Investors have been hoping for signs that the economy is strong enough to justify continuing Wall Stre...

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Advocating for a Weak Dollar Policy Is Like Throwing a Birthday Party for Osama Bin Laden?

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manufacturing, Federal Reserve, Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman, Weak Dollar, Exports, Business News

What is "free trade"? What is "fair trade"? "Weak dollar" policy? "Strong dollar" policy? Most people don't know so conservatives can easily come in and label something as fair trade that isn't necessarily good for anyone.

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Recession Hits Lackluster Art Auction Opener At Christie's

nytimes.com | CAROL VOGEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Auction Recession, Weak Dollar, Rockefeller Center, Recession, Art Auction, Christie's, Fall Auction Season, Degas, New York, New York City, New York News

French and Italian could be heard throughout Christie's salesroom Tuesday night as the fall auction season began unsteadily: While there were some str...

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Trade Minister: Chinese Yuan Isn't Being Kept At An Artificial Low

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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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No Love for Uncle Buck

Garrett Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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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China's Dollar Scam Must End

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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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Obama's Foreign Policy: Surviving Decline

David Calleo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Foreign Policy, Economic Stimulus Package, Post Cold War, Weak Dollar, Financial Crisis, Politics News

The general trend toward a more plural dispensation of power, together with our own progressive loss of geopolitical and financial leverage, means a decline in our relative strength.

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Why Gold Won't Fold

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investing, Mark Leibovit, Central Fund of Canada, Inflation, Weak Dollar, Dollar Value, Gold, Investing in Gold, Market Vector Gold Miners, Central Gold Trust, Recession, Global Economic Crisis, Business News

The precious metal, many gold traders gripe, is not getting the respect it deserves. A surge to new highs is just around the corner.

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The Plummeting Dollar Prosperity Plan

Michael Pento | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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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Oil Hits High, Dollar Plunges

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dollar Weak, Oil Rises, Oil Surge, Dollar Plunge, Weak Dollar, Dollar, Oil Prices, Oil, Business News

NEW YORK — A weakened dollar and evidence that OPEC has significantly slowed production sent oil prices soaring to new highs for the year Thursd...

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Reflecting On Economic Meltdown, International Newspapers Hold U.S. Responsible

James Freedman | Posted 05.25.2011

World Editorial Roundup for December 4, 2008.

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Tech Spending Slows, Dell Protfits And Shares Drop

AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Weak Economy, Dell, Dell Computers, Tech Spending, Consumer Spending, Weak Dollar, Economy, Recession, Business News

Slashing computer prices helped Dell Inc. boost sales in its fiscal second quarter, but the No. 2 PC maker's bottom line took a hit when efforts to cu...

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Organized Crime Groups Dumping Weak US Dollar For Euro

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gangsters Dumping Dollars, Criminals Dumping Dollars, Weak Dollar, Gangsters Dollars Euros, Euros, Criminals Dollar Euro, Organized Crime, Business News

The weakened US dollar has fallen out of favor with organized crime groups to pay for drug shipments or to settle scores, a Canadian government report...

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