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But in this case, the dollar’s
appreciation
can be explained by Trump’s own economic policies.
Alongside rising trade and current-account surpluses, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) maintained a policy of intervening in the foreign-exchange market to dampen appreciation, thereby amassing huge foreign exchange reserves.
Just as the PBOC had intervened to dampen the
appreciation
of the renminbi from 2004-2014, it began intervening to dampen its depreciation after 2014.
It reflects Kazakhstan’s
appreciation
of the liberal world order into which it was born in 1991 – an order that, at that time, had just received a major boost, with the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Some that have high per capita income – for example, Israel, Hong Kong, and Singapore – have low inflation and want to maintain low policy interest rates to prevent exchange-rate
appreciation
against major currencies.
The president may have “saved” 1,000 jobs in Indiana by bullying and cajoling the air-conditioner manufacturer Carrier; but the US dollar’s
appreciation
since the election could destroy almost 400,000 manufacturing jobs over time.
Obama’s one new priority – to expand US support for African farmers – reflects a shrewd
appreciation
of how the expansion of agriculture can quickly lift many rural Africans out of poverty.
A huge influx of capital could lead to a significant
appreciation
of the peso’s exchange rate, causing an increase in Mexico’s currently very attractive labor costs.
Trump’s Strong-Dollar WeaknessSANTA BARBARA – Having gained more than 8% in value since the start of the year, the US dollar is nearing highs not seen in more than a decade, and market indicators point to even more
appreciation
in the coming months.
For starters, it is not at all clear that Trump can take much credit for the dollar’s
appreciation.
But most knowledgeable economists would attribute the dollar’s
appreciation
to rising interest rates.
Thus, if anyone should take credit for the dollar’s appreciation, it is the Fed.
That, in turn, would produce still more dollar
appreciation
and even bigger trade deficits, as happened under Reagan and Bush.
So, despite today’s dollar appreciation, a weakening greenback may be in store over the long term.
This more nuanced view presumably reflects a new appreciation, whether born of security briefings or the sobering fact of actually occupying the Oval Office, that the world is a dangerous place.
In the current debate about what the Fed should do next, Governor Lael Brainard has been arguing that real dollar
appreciation
of 20% in 2014 and 2015 reduces the need for further monetary-policy tightening.
In recent years, slowing the pace of real exchange-rate
appreciation
to shelter domestic producers and employment from import competition seems to have gained clear precedence over disinflation.
As the IMF’s latest annual report on Russia’s economy points out, if the RCB continues to restrain the ruble’s
appreciation
for the sake of growth, the result will merely be higher inflation, which implies that the ruble would still strengthen in real terms, thereby damaging growth.
Indeed, in the five months since that announcement, the Chinese government has allowed the renminbi to appreciate by 3.1% – not much less than the average rate of
appreciation
that it allowed between 2006 and 2008.
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has stressed that China does not want more rapid
appreciation
of the renminbi, because of the potential adverse impact on Chinese exporters.
Rising Chinese exports between 2006 and 2008, despite renminbi appreciation, suggests that this worry is misplaced or at least exaggerated.
But it is clear that the fall of the renminbi against other currencies that has resulted from the Fed’s policy of quantitative easing now gives the Chinese scope for more rapid
appreciation
of the renminbi relative to the dollar.
Greater scope for renminbi
appreciation
comes at a good time for China.
For example, an inflow of oil money often leads to currency
appreciation
- a phenomenon called the Dutch Disease .
In principle, it is easy to avoid currency appreciation: keep the foreign exchange earned from, say, oil exports out of the country.
This simply reflects the reality of monetary-policy interdependence: if the US Federal Reserve’s policy of so-called quantitative easing weakens the dollar, others have to respond to prevent undue
appreciation
of their currencies.
The effect will be much the same as a currency
appreciation.
It would have been better had Chinese officials encouraged earlier and more gradual adjustment, and if adjustment had come through currency appreciation, which would have enhanced workers’ command over imports, rather than inflation, which will make no one happy.
The catalyst for exchange-rate
appreciation
would be not only higher US interest rates, but also a dollar squeeze in emerging markets, where foreign debts have increased by $3 trillion since 2010.
It is hard to believe that any increase in aggregate demand will boost the housing market – which, remember, was buoyed by visions of steady price
appreciation
that few seem likely to hold today – sufficiently to re-employ all these workers.
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