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In the financial arena, there are many signs of a revival of nationalistic approaches to regulation and currency policy.
American Congressmen view the Chinese as archetypal currency manipulators, but the Swiss have introduced a firm cap on the franc’s appreciation.
Recent turmoil in Asian markets raises difficult questions about currency pegs, asset bubbles, inadequate banking supervision, and the lack of financial information which cannot be ignored.
Until the currency crashes of the 1990s, emerging and developing countries tended to target their exchange rates.
If they are hit by an adverse supply shock or terms-of-trade shock in the meantime, the right step would be to loosen monetary policy sufficiently that the currency depreciates.
Indeed, if the shock is an increase in the dollar price of oil, an inflation target in theory dictates tightening monetary policy enough that the currency appreciates.
Unbalanced EuropeBRUSSELS – The G-20 governments have declared that competitive devaluations (or currency wars) must be avoided.
The transformation in China’s banking system, coupled with the recent decision to revalue China’s currency, will require major changes in the conduct of monetary policy.
For the US, as long as the dollar remains the world’s main reserve currency and safe haven of choice, the impact of falling to second or perhaps even third place in terms of economic output may not be so great.
In fact, the situation today is just as dangerous as it was in 2007, with the United States now worried by its anemic economic recovery, Europe paralyzed by fears for the survival of its currency union, and emerging markets wrestling with asset-price bubbles.
What remains to be seen is what will be the value of the EU's new currency, the euro, against the dollar.
Will the single currency turn out to be an instrument of independence or of renewed alignment?
PARIS: Brazil's currency devaluation earlier this year, and its difficulties since in stabilizing the real as well as its stock market, have demonstrated the importance, if any new proof was needed, of financial markets and their volatile mood swings.
No other currency has promised the same degree of security and liquidity for accumulated wealth.
With his transactional approach to politics, Trump seems to focus more on the costs of having a global reserve currency than on the advantages.
This interdependence stems not only from a shared currency: it is the fruit of endless socioeconomic interactions that weave the EU member states into a dynamic web.
A flexible exchange rate dictated by market forces would eliminate the opportunities for currency speculators to make one-way bets on renminbi appreciation, thereby diminishing the stock of hot money that currently accounts for the bulk of China’s capital-account surplus.
Admittedly, the country’s economic performance after the oil shock of the early 1970s was poor, marked by slow growth, high inflation and unemployment, huge fiscal deficits, increasing debt, a declining currency, and inadequate infrastructure.
This expression surely would not have gained currency had Europe’s projects been given time and space to take root.
Every time the resolve of its government weakened, the currency collapsed; every time Indonesia returned to the IMF way, the currency strengthened.
Buy the time it came to Brazil, at the end of 1998 and, again, early this year, everyone knew the script: new elections, a barely averted currency collapse, embarking on the IMF program, and a rapid rebound.
With the Tea Party wing of America’s Republican Party scaring investors out of the dollar, interest in the Chinese renminbi’s potential as an international reserve currency can only increase.
The decades-old shift to a multipolar world for manufacturing could thus lead to a more multipolar currency world, with the renminbi as an important player.
Thatcher supported Britain’s entry into the European Union in order to benefit from free trade, but she forcefully opposed joining the single currency.
Not surprisingly, Hong Kong’s oligopoly of property tycoons opposed changing the peg despite the currency’s gross overvalue at the time.
The currency was in theory governed by a rules-based Currency Board, which the British invented for their smaller colonies.
It tied the local currency to the British Pound, giving local authorities no discretion in monetary policy.
When, during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, global investment professionals turned their attention from Thailand and Korea to Hong Kong, they quickly spotted structural weaknesses in the way the currency was managed.
Egypt is running low on cash – before recent rescue loans, currency reserves covered less than three months of imports – and Egyptians are hoarding fuel and foodstuffs in anticipation of future shortages.
The good news is that the administration has not pursued radically protectionist policies, such as branding countries as currency manipulators, introducing across-the-board tariffs, or pushing for the border adjustment tax.
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