The authorities managed to stabilize the currency.

In fact, Poland s currency recently started to depreciate.

How would the exchange rate be set for the new currency?

The devaluation of the currency dealt a crippling blow to the nation's economy.

This can be done without announcing a specific target level for the exchange rate.

So it is nonsense to declare that China s currency is currently undervalued. We can only know that once all economic players have the opportunity to decide freely on where they wish to place their financial assets.

So it is nonsense to declare that China s currency is currently undervalued.

By maintaining an undervalued currency, China is preventing the US from reducing its bilateral trade deficit.

In fact, currency devaluations were critical to ending the Great Depression.

If the country has a floating exchange rate regime, the currency depreciates, too.

Cyprus is a European Union member and uses the euro as its currency.

First, much of the region pegged its exchange rates to the U.S. dollar.

So devaluation isn't a decrease in the exchange rate of the national currency it's a decrease in the cost of the people.

Despite the announced reforms, it is unlikely that there will be any significant exchange rate flexibility in China s currency.

Just as in the case of the United Kingdom since 2008, the Greek exchange rate would depreciate sharply.

CAMBRIDGE For several years, American officials have pressed China to revalue its currency.

The right accepted its defeat, and the left has governed reasonably (maintaining the dollar as the national currency).

Often those who purchase dollars do so out of concern of local currency devaluation.

According to World Bank data, 32 of Argentina's exports are manufactured goods, with roughly one quarter classified as high technology products. From 1991 to 2001, total exports grew from about 12 billion to 27 billion (an average annual growth rate of about 8.5 ), despite the overvalued currency.

From 1991 to 2001, total exports grew from about 12 billion to 27 billion (an average annual growth rate of about 8.5 ), despite the overvalued currency.

With the currency at a level that makes Argentina competitive again, reconstruction can begin.

Venezuela will introduce a special exchange rate for its national currency the bolivar against the dollar for tourists.

The IMF U.S. strategy of telling countries to defend their exchange rates through high interest rates backed by IMF bailout loans should end and the IMF s Managing Director, M. Michel Camdessus, shown the door.

Some countries may proceed faster, especially those with hard pegs against the euro, while for others the years 2008 2010 seem to be a more realistic target.

By capping the exchange rate and producing far more than it consumes, China s reserves grew into a Leviathan, hitting the 1 trillion mark in 2005.

The balance sheet effects on euro debts caused by the depreciation of the new national currency would thus have to be handled through an orderly and negotiated conversion of euro liabilities into the new national currencies.

So long as the bad debts claim center stage, collapse of domestic finance and of a nation's currency becomes extreme.

But if Asian countries move together, China will be more willing to let its exchange rate against the dollar become unstuck.

The currencies of the reform laggards would have depreciated against that of Germany, and there might have been a supportive cut in interest rates as well.

Only a return to a national currency and a sharp depreciation of that currency can restore competitiveness and growth.

As a result of the currency peg, Argentina's interest rates were largely determined in the US.

Never mind that most of the crises could have been avoided, or late least substantially mitigated, if governments had let their currencies float against the dollar, rather than adopting rigid exchange rate pegs.

People should be wary of commentators who purport to explain why a currency's exchange rate is doing what it is doing.

Yet China's rulers are right to postpone the decision to float.

A simple, effective way to buy time would be to abandon the euro and restore competitiveness through a devalued national currency.

How can the periphery get out of the self inflicted historical curse of a central bank and a national money.

Without the possibility of domestic currency devaluation, southern Europe finds itself with a built in productivity disadvantage vis à vis Germany.

However, if we don t see any new negative factors emerge in the near future, Russian indices and the position of the national currency may correct themselves.

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First, short term speculators seeking higher returns, or investors overanxious for safety, drive a currency's value to unsustainable levels.

Brazil spent 45 billion in foreign exchange reserves in a failed attempt to defend the currency, which ended up collapsing anyway in January 1999.

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Above all, confidence in its stability and availability must be maintained, which highlights the practicality of a national currency, or perhaps a variety of national currencies.

Likewise, post deflation Japan could promise never again to resort to massive intervention to stop its currency from appreciating.