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To: JmyBryan

Blink is right

TWO friggin' percent--

The smallest guess I've seen was that the yuan was undervalued by 25%, not TWO percent.


41 posted on 07/21/2005 9:32:38 AM PDT by ninenot (Minister of Membership, Tomas Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: ninenot
The smallest guess I've seen was that the yuan was undervalued by 25%, not TWO percent.

Yeah, but it's the Chinese government who set the exchange rate. It starts off at 2%, but it'll change a lot more than that.

An old rule of thumb is that the "real" exchange rate is the average of whatever you can get from a money changer on the street, and it's usually a lot different from the government-set value. It's been years since I've seen that statistic for the yuan, so I can't say what a real value should be.

55 posted on 07/21/2005 10:16:28 AM PDT by r9etb
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