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Krugman adds voice to Senate consideration of currency manipulation bill

October 3, 2011 By Ron Sylvester Leave a Comment

Last week on this blog we ran a release from the National Farmers Union which urged the U.S. Senate to adopt legislation that hold currency manipulators, like China, accountable. Today, Nobel Laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman devoted his column to this issue. Read the excerpt below and visit the NYT to read the entire column.

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Ask yourself: Why is it so hard to restore full employment? It’s true that the housing bubble has popped, and consumers are saving more than they did a few years ago. But once upon a time America was able to achieve full employment without a housing bubble and with savings rates even higher than we have now. What changed?

The answer is that we used to run much smaller trade deficits. A return to economic health would look much more achievable if we weren’t spending $500 billion more each year on imported goods and services than foreigners spent on our exports.

To get our trade deficit down, however, we need to make American products more competitive, which in practice means that we need the dollar’s value to fall in terms of other currencies. Yes, some people will shriek about “debasing” the dollar. But sensible policy makers have long known that sometimes a weaker currency means a stronger economy, and have acted on that knowledge. Switzerland, for example, has intervened massively to keep the franc from getting too strong against the euro. Israel has intervened even more forcefully to weaken the shekel. …

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