The currency wars

The World

The US is mad at China for the artificially low value of its currency. China is mad at the US for the Federal Reserve’s decision to flood the US market with dollars. On the eve of the G20 summit in Seoul, Simon Johnson, professor at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the former chief for the International Monetary Fund, explains the issue.

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