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- From: errol@hpgnd153.grenoble.hp.com (Errol Inan)
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:52:20 GMT
- Subject: Re: Medium and Long-term Direction of the Dollar (esp vs Dmark)
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- > / hpgnd153:misc.invest / jaorans@pbhyg.PacBell.COM (Jeff Oransky) / 4:16 pm Nov 16, 1992 /
- > 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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- >| Jeffrey A. Oransky | "What? Me worry?" |
- >| Pacific Bell | Alfred E. Newman |
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- The American trade deficit can increase for one or both of two reasons,
- increased imports, or decreased exports. The case for the U.S. is both.
-
- You say that demand for American products is increasing? Humm. Today in the
- French Newspaper Le Figaro, there was an article discussing the results of a
- just released American Congressional survey, finding that the US has lost
- ground in 10 of 11 "high-tech" industrial sectors against foreign competitors.
- Some of the sectors idenitified were computers, semi-conductors,
- telecommunications, consumer electronics, civil aeronautics, and automobles.
- The only industry to escape a decline was pharmaceuticals.
-
- Anybody who believes that exports of United States products relative to
- foreign nations is increasing, on an inflation adjusted basis over the approx.
- the last 10 years, is living in a dream world.
-