[sarcasm]

ping

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The term "jobless recovery" is ridiculous. Can you imagine someone using that term during the Great Depression? Who is "recovering" if there are no jobs - stock manipulators?

[razorback-bert]

``flexible'' currency exchange rates.

Is my memory faulty? Didn't we do this during the Carter years?

[Beck_isright]

"Such policies give Chinese and Japanese companies an unfair trading edge over rivals by making their goods cheaper overseas."

With the Japanese products, maybe so. But since the majority of the Chinese exports are from subsidiaries of US corporations, this is a joke. They could care less if prices went up because they have a captive market in the U.S. by and large.