Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Currency wars are necessary if all else fails

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The overwhelming fact of the global currency system is that America needs a much weaker dollar to bring its economy back into kilter and avoid slow ruin, yet the rest of the world cannot easily handle the consequences of such a wrenching adjustment. There is not enough demand to go around.


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