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To: Southack

>>> In a global economy, your competitor nations are going to manipulate your currency if your own government leaves it alone. There is no conservative option; only the option to attack. <<<

You avoided answering a direct question again.

If you call devaluing the savings of all Americans and raising prices on all goods an attack on competitor nations, I'd like to see what a retreat would look like.

If you are advocating a continuous round of competitive currency devaluations, then I ask again...Is this a conservative policy? How do you know when one nation wins? Where is a historical example of a competitive currency devaluation bringing prosperity?


275 posted on 11/27/2004 9:59:01 PM PST by OwenKellogg
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To: OwenKellogg
"If you are advocating a continuous round of competitive currency devaluations, then I ask again...Is this a conservative policy? How do you know when one nation wins? Where is a historical example of a competitive currency devaluation bringing prosperity?"

Japan, circa 1946 until today (compared to pre-ww2 values). China, circa 1990 until today.

Is it "conservative?"

Yes, in the sense that it is Nationalistic to subsidize your exports and penalize the imports of comeptitor nations.

276 posted on 11/27/2004 10:01:42 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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