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This research shows that people of different races trust each other much less; whites are less willing to support welfare spending because it is perceived to favor minorities; more racially fragmented communities have less efficient governments, more corruption and patronage, more crime and fewer productive public goods per tax dollar.
Meanwhile, the governor of California rejects the use of federal rescue funds to keep Mississippi’s banks afloat, while the secretary of the California Department of Finance declares that Mississippi voters must decide whether or not to keep the dollar.
These representatives know that their states are net winners of the union, ultimately benefiting from giving two dollars to some of the weaker states for every dollar that they pay in federal taxes.
There is also, of course, the question of the dollar.
If a US stock market is widely interpreted as the end of a wonderful US expansion, the dollar will sell off.
That is not much of a problem for the US, but it definitely is in Europe where the strong dollar has worked as an employment program.
I need know nothing about the dollar bill I receive to be able to use it.
Lower long-term interest rates and a weaker dollar are good news for US stock markets, and Trump’s pro-business agenda is still good for individual stocks in principle, even if the air has been let out of the so-called Trump reflation trade.
And there is now less reason to worry that a massive fiscal-stimulus program will push up the dollar and force the Fed to raise rates.
The PBOC also has projected a stable exchange-rate environment for this year – despite the steep depreciation of the Japanese yen, the euro, and emerging-economy currencies against the dollar – thereby promoting global stability.
In ten short years, the euro revolutionized the global economic environment, rising to the status of the world’s second currency and rivaling the dollar as a medium for international trade and finance.
America, the BalancedCAMBRIDGE – When the United States’ current account fell into deficit in 1982, the US Council of Economic Advisers accurately predicted record deficits for years to come, owing to budget deficits, a low national saving rate, and an overvalued dollar.
Many of us worried that the imbalances were unsustainable, and might end in a “hard landing” for the dollar if and when global investors tired of holding it.
When the global financial crisis erupted, they flooded into dollar assets, even though the crisis originated in the United States.
Moreover, a substantial amount of US adjustment has taken place since 1982 – for example, the dollar depreciations of 1985-1987 and 2002-2007 and the fiscal retrenchments of 1992-2000 and 2009-2014.
As a result, the US current-account deficit in 2013 had narrowed by half in dollar terms from its 2006 peak, and from 5.8% of GDP to 2.4%.
Certainly a lot of the discrepancy is attributable to valuation effects: since 1982, the dollar value of overseas assets has increased repeatedly, owing to increases in the dollar value of foreign currency and increases in the assets’ foreign-currency value.
The German currency is second only to the US dollar as a reserve currency: 15% of the world's foreign exchange reserves are in D-Mark (dollar: 57%).
In one respect the Bundesbank need not worry: The larger the number and the clout of the countries pegging their currencies to the D-Mark, the smaller the impact of the fluctuations of the US dollar exchange rate on the German economy.
The Euro will replace the D-Mark and probably the dollar in citizens' wallets.
By enabling monetary expansion, and thus causing the US dollar to depreciate, the logic goes, a floating exchange rate allows the prices of US exports to decline relative to its imports.
This means that, even if the US dollar depreciates, it does not become more expensive for US importers to buy Japanese goods, so there is limited incentive to switch from Japanese to US goods.
A weaker dollar thus has limited impact on US imports.
Likewise, a weaker yen does little to spur Japanese exports to the US, because the dollar price of those exports remains roughly constant.
In fact, we document that global trade prices and volumes are driven by the dollar exchange rate, rather than the exchange rate between the two trading partners’ currencies.
The strength of the US dollar is thus a key predictor of aggregate trade volume and consumer/producer price inflation worldwide.
Financial institutions that have come to doubt their borrowers’ ability to repay sell the debt to third parties at knock-down prices, often for as little as five cents on the dollar.
The US student-loan provider Sallie Mae admitted that it sells repackaged debt for as little as 15 cents on the dollar.
or about three cents on the dollar.
In addition to multiplying donor funding, it is supporting countries that are committed to reforming their education systems, thus ensuring that every dollar goes toward delivering concrete results.
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