Showing posts with label currency wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label currency wars. Show all posts
26 May 2013

Growing Yen for Truce in Currency Wars

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I have been watching Japan's engagement in the global currency wars for some years but this is the first time that I have had a chanc...
16 January 2012

Currency Warts and All

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As the struggle for dominance in the 21st century global marketplace intensifies the battle over which currency that economy will be denomin...
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28 December 2011

Financial Chincanery Threatens Our Future

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While our policy-makers have been striding around their Cotswold estates burning off an excess of Christmas pudding, elsewhere in the world ...
4 November 2011

Why is the Euro so Strong?

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With chaos in the negotiations with Greece, rumours of potential bankruptcy in Italy, and real concerns about the economies of Portugal and ...
5 October 2011

Currency War Lurches Towards Trade War

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The growing power of China over the US resulting from its ownership of US treasuries , not to mention its superior productive capacity, is t...
16 September 2011

Two Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb

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As we blunder towards another credit crisis, with banks losing confidence in each other and increasingly refusing to accept each other's...
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7 September 2011

Neutral Switzerland Joins Currency Wars

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There has been discussion in earlier posts on this blog about the role of reserve currencies and of the developing conflict over the value ...
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18 April 2011

Great Transformation: Phase II

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I have finally overcome my inherent thrift and bought Karl Polanyi's Great Transformation , allowing me the leisure time to consider hi...
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19 March 2011

Japan's Accidental Intervention in the Currency Wars?

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The Japanese situation makes clear the need to restore democracy to the world's economy. We need to take power back from the capital mar...
27 January 2011

How Much Money Has the Fed Printed?

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As we suffer under the cosh of the Tories' austerity, many are casting envious eyes across the Atlantic and asking whether our governmen...
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