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| Kudlow notes Yuan is trading in line with USD. Yes, Larry, it is called a Peg. Duh. And China beggars thy neighbor. http://bit.ly/24iOpT 10/28/2009 |
| Krugman: China steals jobs by devaluing the RNB. http://bit.ly/LNhYU 10/26/2009 |
| 纽约时报今日发表Paul Krugman评论中国经济的文章,要求人民币升值。 http://bit.ly/142TbS 10/24/2009 |
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
Friday's opinions are always guaranteed - agree or disagree, or your money back. And the Angels are still alive (champion series comes back to NY.) Mark Blumenthal: The conservative reaction to Tuesday's new ABC News/Washington Post poll did not stop with claims that the partisan balance of the respondents was "rigged." It also included a furious push-back over the wording of the "public option" question, no doubt fueled by the Post's decision to make that particular result the lede of their front page story (something even Nate Silver found "somewhat bizarre"). In ...
Palin vs Krugman On The Dollar -- Who Is Right?
Seeing the Forest —
... Iraq was going to spread smallpox?) She earns her Exxon check, writing that we need to "Drill, baby, drill" for energy independence to solve this. She writes nothing about conservation, alternative energy sources like wind or solar, or about smart grids, or developing a 21st century economy -- Exxon wouldn't like that. Palin's ghostwriter confuses several issues at the same time. This is brilliant agitprop but terrible, terrible policy. Paul Krugman, America's other master economist, writes in the NY Times today that the problem is China, not Obama. China "pegs" their ...
Dave Johnson: Palin vs Krugman On The Dollar -- Who Is Right?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Paul Krugman, America's other master economist, writes in the NY Times today that the problem is China, not Obama. China "pegs" their currency to the dollar so when the dollar drops the Yuan drops along with it. This keeps goods made in China at a nice, low price relative to everyone else, reducing any advantage we might gain from market forces. Krugman writes, ...
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Ezra Klein —
... 4) "China’s bad behavior is posing a growing threat to the rest of the world economy," writes Paul Krugman. "The only question now is what the world — and, in particular, the United States — will do about it." ...

