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- From: luchini@nhmfl.fsu.edu (Marco Luchini)
- Subject: Re: Medium and Long-term Direction of the Dollar (esp vs Dmark)
- In-Reply-To: errol@hpgnd153.grenoble.hp.com's message of Sat, 14 Nov 1992 13:22:48 GMT
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 03:31:26
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- In article <24560008@hpgnd153.grenoble.hp.com> errol@hpgnd153.grenoble.hp.com (Errol Inan) writes:
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- > In the U.S. interest rates and inflation are at par. Demand for American
- > products has been declining the since around 1980, as seen by a net deficit of
- > imports minus exports. As a result, the dollar was hammered throughout most
- > of the 80s.
-
- Not quite correct. Only in the last part of the 80's, starting with the
- Plaza accord has the dollar entered a bear phase. For most of the 80's
- the dollar was in a raging bull market caused by the high interest rates
- of the early Reagan years.
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- Ciao, Marco
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