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Does America Need a Strong Dollar Policy?

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Does America Need a Strong Dollar Policy?

Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates

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Frederic Mishkin: Strong Dollar Will Damage US Economy

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Frederic Mishkin, American economist and professor at the Columbia Business School, argues why a weaker dollar is ironically more beneficial to America's economic recovery.
Steve Forbes: A Weak Dollar Is a Destructive Virus

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Steve Forbes, Jr., American publishing executive of Forbes magazine, asserts why a weak dollar has a destructive rippling effect throughout the entirety of the American economy.
US Dollar: The Good & the Bad of Being World's Currency

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Steve Forbes, Jr., American publishing executive of Forbes magazine, and James Grant, Editor and Founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, debate the desirability of being the world's standard currency.
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phiscal

Posted: 04.04.13, 11:50 AM

This debate is not finished. We won't know the outcome for a decade, I'm guessing. It's clear that Big Politics, Big Business, and Big Academia prefers to manipulate value of the currency as they see fit. If one beleives that low interest fed the boom that is now bust, Grant and Forbes are right to lay responsibility for recent turbulence at the doorstep of the Monetary Managers. However, the notion that we can inflate our way out of today's debt debacle is just too attractive for most people. It posits that we can avoid the pain of past mistakes. I'm not a believer, so I have to cross my fingers.

Paul Millward

Posted: 03.20.13, 06:18 AM

Note that a stable/volatile currancy and strong/weak currancy are used in this clip as if they were one and the same fenomenom with identical macro and micro economic effects. They are not the same and therefore this mixing of these fenomena regretably detracts from the basis of many of the arguments made by Mr Forbes. One would assume Mr Forbes knows the one from the other. This makes this clip all the more interesting ...