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For starters, whereas the dollar value of the RMB rose nearly every year from 2005 to 2013 – by 36.7% in total – it has since fallen steadily, discouraging speculators.
The RMB’s fall against the dollar reflects the slowing of China’s debt-fueled economic growth and the accumulation of default risks.
As a consequence, the dollar value of China’s exports has fallen by 9.1% since its peak in early 2015.
Thus, the real values of their currencies must be kept low relative to the dollar, which means that their reserves now invested in the US must continue to grow.
Perhaps the dollar will collapse and there will be a burst of inflation in the US as the Federal Reserve Board decides that temporarily abandoning its price-level peg is a lesser evil than the unemployment fallout that will result from a dollar collapse and interest rate spike.
A government that buys political risk insurance by placing an ever-growing stock of reserve assets in dollar securities guards against some dangers.
Buying other countries’ bonds would mean abandoning the goal of keeping real currency values low against the dollar.
(We will see how investors judge the dollar once the smoke clears and the huge expansion of US money and debt becomes evident.)
And investors were also reassured by the fact that the world’s second most powerful economy, China, had a vested interest in a relatively strong, stable dollar, owing to the fact that a large portion of its massive stock of foreign-exchange reserves was held in dollars.
Hence, the paradox: though the source of the problem was the US, money went rushing to the US, strengthening the dollar.
From the mid-1990s to 2005, the renminbi was virtually pegged to the US dollar in nominal terms, and the dollar did experience real appreciation.
The logic was simple: by buying dollars, China could cause the relative value of the dollar to rise, which meant that the value of the renminbi would fall.
Accordingly, the People’s Bank of China accumulated enormous dollar reserves during this time.
The list of such currency movements – which so far has included the euro's 25% fall against the dollar, a record low for the Mexican peso, and disorderly depreciations of the Brazilian real and other emerging-economy currencies – is getting longer by the day.
Relative to the US dollar, an equal-weighted basket of 10 major Asian currencies (excluding Japan) has retraced the crisis-related distortions of 2008-2009 and has now returned to pre-crisis highs.
This dollar invasion is making macroeconomic management in emerging countries even more challenging than usual.
The Dodd-Frank legislation contains rules that have impeded the functioning of the international monetary market: by raising US dollar funding costs for foreign banks, the rule compromised so-called covered interest parity.
This is particularly true of the quantitative easing now underway in the United States, because the American dollar is the major global reserve currency.
If this leads to a weakening of the dollar, it would also have negative effects on trading partners.
One argument that economists use is that higher prices are due to the weak dollar.
Because oil is priced in dollars, a weak dollar makes oil cheaper to users in other countries, which increases global demand.
The price of oil has risen far more than the dollar has fallen.
Moreover, it is high oil prices that weakened the dollar, not vice versa.
Just consider how the current bout has raised global inflation, lowered incomes of the global poor, weakened the dollar, deepened the US trade deficit, aggravated global financial instability, and increased the likelihood of a global recession.
This research shows each extra dollar spent on these vaccines will generate $60 worth of human welfare.
The cost-benefit analysis shows that every dollar spent on nutrition interventions in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life can return benefits worth around $45.
In some nations, this return can be as high as $166 per dollar spent.
The analysis for Copenhagen Consensus shows that each dollar of Warren Buffett’s money spent by the Gates Foundation on vaccination, contraception, and nutrition is generating a return worth $45-120.
For every dollar that it is giving to the Global Fund, the Bush Administration is committing $350 to Iraq.
It also provides relief from the bean-counting rigidity that comes from policing every dollar that a contractor spends.
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