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As it stands, that basket includes the US dollar, the British pound, the euro, and the Japanese yen.
Meanwhile, the strengthening dollar will destroy more of the jobs typically held by Trump’s blue-collar base.
If this happens again under Trump, fiscal deficits will push up interest rates and the dollar even further, and hurt the economy in the long term.
Inflation will then force even Janet Yellen’s dovish Federal Reserve to hike up interest rates sooner and faster than it otherwise would have done, which will drive up long-term interest rates and the value of the dollar still more.
For example, he and his advisers have already made verbal pronouncements intended to weaken the dollar.
If that fails, Trump could unilaterally intervene to weaken the dollar, or impose capital controls to limit dollar-strengthening capital inflows.
So long as the credits are long term and carry a modest interest rate (say, 25-year dollar loans at 5% per annum), the recipient countries could repay the loans out of the significant boost in incomes that would result over the course of a generation.
If the dollar falls 20% more against the euro sometime in the next ten years, US long-term interest rates should be two percentage points higher than euro rates.
Yet financial markets are not pricing dollar depreciation and a rise in long-term US interest rates accordingly.
Wall Streeters, however, offer a counterargument: for any financial institution to, say, bet on the decline of the dollar against the yuan over the next five years in a serious, leveraged way is to put its survival at risk should the trades go wrong.
The dollar will fall and US long-term interest rates will rise, but only when traders on Wall Street and elsewhere decide that holding dollars and long-term US bonds is more risky in the short run.
For example, under the Plaza Accord, the US joined with Japan, Germany, and other G-7 countries in 1985 to intervene cooperatively to weaken the dollar.
The euro, too, has depreciated significantly against the dollar over the last year, and some US trade critics want provisions to prevent currency manipulation added to the TTIP.
This is worth bearing in mind, given that the Fed’s adoption of QE in 2008 (which it continued to pursue until last year) had the effect of weakening the dollar from 2009 to 2011, prompting the same accusations of “beggar thy neighbor policies” against the US that congressmen now level against others.
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.
A stronger dollar could be taken to mean that his pro-growth economic policies are working.
Yet a closer look shows that matters are more complicated; in fact, Trump could precipitate a great decline in the dollar.
When US interest rates rise, more investment capital flows in, driving up demand for the dollar.
In each case, the dollar appreciated dramatically (by as much as 60% under Reagan between 1981 and 1985).
But while a strong dollar exchange rate might appeal to Trump’s ego, it doesn’t necessarily serve his broader agenda.
After all, a strengthening dollar increases the price of exports abroad and lowers the domestic cost of imports, thus discouraging the former and encouraging the latter.
That, in turn, would produce still more dollar appreciation and even bigger trade deficits, as happened under Reagan and Bush.
For decades, no currency has been more widely used than the dollar.
The longer he maintains such policies, the more likely it is that markets will gradually move toward alternatives to the dollar.
Eventually, the dollar would slowly bleed out, and America’s exorbitant privilege and global influence would evaporate.
So, despite today’s dollar appreciation, a weakening greenback may be in store over the long term.
Still, the terms were acceptable to the vast majority of the country’s creditors, who exchanged their old claims for new ones worth 30 cents on the dollar.
Griesa idiosyncratically reinterpreted the pari passu, or equal treatment, clause in the debt contracts to mean that “vulture” funds refusing to participate in the earlier debt exchange should receive not 30 but 100 cents on the dollar.
A euro spent on research in Europe is less productive than a dollar spent in the US for two reasons: incentives and the demand for technology.
It implies that the US can kick the can down the road as long as the dollar remains the world’s preeminent reserve currency, and America offers the best safe haven for skittish capital owners.
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