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- From: jaorans@pbhyg.PacBell.COM (Jeff Oransky)
- Subject: Re: Medium and Long-term Direction of the Dollar (esp vs Dmark)
- Reply-To: jaorans@PacBell.COM (Jeff Oransky)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:16:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.151637.11892@pbhyg.PacBell.COM>
- References: <26397@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <24560008@hpgnd153.grenoble.hp.com> <LUCHINI.92Nov16033126@fangio.nhmfl.fsu.edu>
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- In article <LUCHINI.92Nov16033126@fangio.nhmfl.fsu.edu> luchini@nhmfl.fsu.edu (Marco Luchini) writes:
- >In article <24560008@hpgnd153.grenoble.hp.com> errol@hpgnd153.grenoble.hp.com (Errol Inan) writes:
- >
- >> 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.
- >
- >
- >Ciao, Marco
-
- Furthermore, the trade deficit is hardly an indication that the demand
- for american products abroad is declining. It is, in fact, increasing.
- The trade deficit has gone up because of an increase in domestic demand
- for foreign goods.
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