Don't Complain About Bargain Prices

Summary


Interest groups and politicians increasingly complain that the values of the Chinese yuan and the Japanese yen are "too low."

The concern is that a foreign currency whose value against the dollar is "too low" makes foreign-made goods and services less expensive for American consumers (and makes American-made goods and services more expensive for foreign consumers).

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Don't Complain About Bargain Prices

If Beijing and Tokyo would only raise the values of their respective currencies, then Americans would import less and export more -- an outcome that, allegedly, is desirable.

Or that, at any rate, is the theory b...

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