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

AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 12.07.2009 | Business

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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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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Dollar Falls On News Of Widening Trade Deficit

AP | TALI ARBEL | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

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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Degas Pastel Only Winner At Christie's Art Auction

nytimes.com | CAROL VOGEL | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York

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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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

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

Mike Elk | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

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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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

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 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

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 08.07.2009 | Politics

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 07.09.2009 | Business

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 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

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 04.19.2009 | Business

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 01.04.2009 | World

World Editorial Roundup for December 4, 2008.

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Tech Spending Slows, Dell Protfits And Shares Drop

AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business

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 09.24.2008 | Business

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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TIME Blames Speculators: "We Are Slaves To This Black Gold Standard"

TIME | Arj J. Officer and Garret J. Hayes | Posted 09.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil, Commodities Trading, Futures Market, Weak Dollar, Business News

Is it possible that oil prices are rigged? You bet. Here's how: Just how would you raise prices if you were an oil supplier? Controlling the supply -...

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Porn Not Recession-Proof: Amateur Porn Good Enough Substitute In Trying Times

Epicenter | Betsy Schiffman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Pornography, Recession-Proof, Recession-Proof Jobs, Economy, User-Generated Porn and the Economy, Porn Profits, Weak Dollar, Porn, Recession, Good Porn, Recession Proof Porn, Porn Amateur, Amateur Porn, I Porn, Business News

In good times and in bad, sin sells; booze, tobacco and sex have all weathered countless economic storms over the centuries. This recession is a litt...

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Starbucks and America's First Taste of the Greater Depression

Max Keiser | Posted 07.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Starbucks, Greater Depression, Great Depression, Forex, Starbucks Closing, Dollar Value, Starbucks Coffee, Weak Dollar, Starbucks Closures, Business News

Starbucks is the first, but not the last example of how a falling dollar will make most items that Americans over consume too expensive for Americans to buy with their crumbling currency.

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Sorry, Canada, $7 Canadian Is Just $6.98 American!

Dave Burdick | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Loonie, Canadian Dollar, Weak Economy, Canada, Weak Dollar, Inflation, Economy, Business News

"Hey, Canada! You thought that pipeline was worth seven billion dollars? Ha! Yeah, where we're from, that's a $6.98 billion pipeline!" And then I'd smugly shine an apple on my lapel.

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U.S. Inflation At A Glance

Posted 07.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Inflation, Food Prices, Consumer Price Index, Consumer Prices, Gas Prices, Cost of Living, Weak Dollar, Recession, Economy, Business News

Reports on inflation showed big price increases at the consumer level and the wholesale level for June, driven by higher energy and food costs. Here ...

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FDIC chair: Deposits in nation's banks are safe

AP | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Weak Dollar, Fdic, FDIC Chair, US Banks, Sheila Bair, Weak Economy, Banking Crisis, Economy, Business News

WASHINGTON — The nation's banking system is "absolutely safe" and Americans' insured deposits in banks protected, the head of the Federal Deposi...

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The Time For Fed Action Is Now

Vince Farrell | Posted 07.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Federal Reserve, Weak Economy, Ben Bernanke, Core Inflation, Weak Dollar, Inflation, Business News

Inflation is the cruelest form of taxation. It eats away at buying power and once uncorked, it's very hard to contain.

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Stocks drop on bank worries, FedEx profit warning

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Dow, Dow Dips, Weak Dollar, Economic Downturn, Economic Slowdown, Oil Prices, Morgan Stanley, Commodities Trading, Business News

NEW YORK — Wall Street sank Wednesday for the second straight day on renewed concerns about the financial sector and FedEx Corp.'s warning that ...

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Fire, Weak Dollar Fuel Record Oil Prices

AP | JOHN WILEN | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Record Oil Prices, Crude Oil Prices, Gas Crisis, Weak Dollar, Weak Economy, Economic Slowdown, Business News

NEW YORK — Crude oil futures swung wildly on Monday, rising to a record and then tumbling as investors wrestled with whether they should put sto...

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Starbucks To Open 150 More European Locations

Reuters | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Slowdown, Economic Downturn, Weak Economy, Starbucks Europe, Weak Dollar, Starbucks, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is boosting its European presence with plans to license 150 new locations in Br...

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