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Recession Causes Dollar To Struggle Against Foreign Currencies

Published 06/18/08 Jeff Bennett - Print Article
E-mail - editor@economyincisis.org

Our dollar continues to weaken against foreign currency. Americans continue to print more paper money – causing inflation rates to rise – while foreigners cheaply buy American bonds, increasing our foreign debt. Instead of being an exporter of American bonds, we must be an exporter of dependable American goods.

Moreover, as the dollar weakens against foreign currency, it becomes all the easier for domestic firms to be acquired by foreign companies. Foreign companies can easily purchase American companies as the dollar continues to plummet. Since 1978, 15397 companies have been sold for $1,974,779,120,570. This must not happen, but we must move in a direction to reduce our foreign debt and regain the strength of the dollar.


Source Bloomberg.com:

The dollar traded near a one-week low against the euro as investors bet the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged next week, while the European Central Bank will increase borrowing costs in July.

The U.S. currency was also near its lowest in a week against the yen after reports in the U.S. yesterday showed housing starts fell in May to a 17-year low and industrial production unexpectedly declined.

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``We're in a recession and inflation is accelerating, so if you want to call that stagflation, then so be it,'' Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. ``This weak dollar is causing all kinds of problems with inflation.''


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