And the creation of the Federal Reserve system(1913), act, laws (all while congress was out for Christmas vacation). The creation of a central banking system in the United States. Something Andy Jackson and Abe Lincoln was assinated for being AGAINST.. Jackson survived though.. Lincoln vetoed a bill to create a central bank just a few weeks before the "HIT"..
"Someone" evidently did'nt like that... I know, I know you thought it was about slavery.. Hint: Its always about "the money".. And few americans even KNOW that greenbacks are NOT MONEY..Most don't even what MONEY IS..
Trade deficit is really getting way out of hand and becoming an embarrassment to the free trading neo-cons. Something must be done or nation's manurfacturing base (read jobs) will all but disappear. Leaving the USA as a poor third world type country. Solution let the dollar fall until imports loss their price advantage over domestic goods.
Similarly Break the Chinese currency peg to the US dollar. China has the value of it's currency, the Yaun, pegged to the US dollar, this effectively gives Chinese goods a permanent advantage over US goods. With this permanent advantage the US will never be able to compete in either the US or Chinese market. Something must be done. Solution, a game of chicken, make the Yaun worthless by making the dollar worthless effectively wiping out the value of all the dollars being hoarded by the Chinese.
The debt load of the USA is enormous and growing, something must be done to get rid of that debt. Solution, the debt is in dollars so reduce the real debt by reducing the value of the dollar.
The Bush Administration has absolute faith in the free market and will not intervene one way or the other. They believe that the best course is to allow the market to set the price of the dollar, if that means a big drop in value, so be it.
Anyone have any other ideas? Certainly does appear that the Bush Administration has a hands off policy when it comes to a falling dollar.