...seeing its dollar exchange rate jump to over $2.00, and not just to $1.65 or $1.70, as it seems poised to do anyway. You can't treat your customers as badly as the United States has done lately if they can go elsewhere.

Over the past six years, the value of the trade-weighted dollar has fallen by more than quarter, as the United States has continued to rack up historically unprecedented trade deficits. With a soft economy, a badly compromised financial system,...

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