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The European Monetary System began as a high-level reaction to global currency chaos, and in particular to the depreciation of the dollar in 1977 and 1978, which seemed to threaten its continued role as the major international reserve currency.

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So it's not obvious how it leads to inflation in the country doing the actual printing unless it leads to a currency depreciation of that country.

Once confidence began to recover and market conditions stabilized, the East Asian economies shifted their monetary and fiscal policies toward expansion and embraced large-scale exchange-rate depreciation – efforts that enhanced their export competitiveness.

But targeting the consumer price index precludes this, because depreciation would raise the price of imported oil, food, and other tradable commodities.

There is a widespread suspicion that the US is deliberately pursuing dollar depreciation (or “currency wars,” in the words of Brazil’s finance minister).

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