A blog by Jonathan Conning of the Economics Department at Hunter College of the City University of New York. This blog comes back to life when I happen to be teaching a course on trade and/or development but at other times may lay dormant.
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To 19-month low against the Euro. Funniest line of the article: "On Friday, China warned other countries that holding excessive dollar reserves may not be a good idea ." My italics.
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Anonymous said…
Ironic considering that China passed the one trillion mark last quarter!!
I do agree with Amaury that Ben Bernanke has fewer policies degrees of freedom with which to play the policy game compared to his predecessor Alan Greenspan.
Anonymous said…
the funny thing about it is people are analysing some random speculation.
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