The Sunshine Report

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Category Archive: Trade

  1. Renminbi to Replace the Dollar as King of Currencies? Not Likely

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    There is a lot of spec­u­la­tion that the dol­lar is los­ing ground to the Chi­nese ren­minbi and that sooner or later the Fed will share the global stage with Chi­nese mon­e­tary author­i­ties. Chi­nese gov­ern­ment offi­cials and Jere­miad west­ern eco­nomic fore­cast­ers who claim that the ren­minbi will replace the dol­lar as the world’s pre­mier cur­rency cer­tainly […] [read full story]

    Posted in: China, Economic Statistics, economy, Finance, M2, Monetary Policy, Money Supply, Public Policy, Seeking Alpha, Trade, Trade Finance

  2. Be Careful What You Wish For –Chinese Currency Revaluation May Hurt America

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    There is mount­ing evi­dence that a freely float­ing Chi­nese cur­rency will actu­ally drop in value and make Chi­nese exports cheaper. In his con­fir­ma­tion hear­ings, Tim Gei­th­ner espoused the U.S. “Con­ven­tional Wis­dom” that China is an unfair trade com­peti­tor because it manip­u­lates its cur­rency down in value so that its exports are arti­fi­cially cheap. The Con­ven­tional […] [read full story]

    Posted in: Asia, China, economy, Finance, Manufacturing, Politics, Public Policy, Timothy Geithner, Trade

  3. Sunshine’s Travel Log Blog — The Chinese Economic Miracle May Be Unraveling

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      The Chi­nese eco­nomic mir­a­cle appears to be unrav­el­ing at an alarm­ing and accel­er­at­ing pace. In just 30 years, China was able to trans­form its econ­omy from a Marx­ist bas­ket case to a global man­u­fac­tur­ing pow­er­house. But recent reports of mas­sive plant clos­ings, sky­rock­et­ing unem­ploy­ment, plung­ing exports and grow­ing social unrest are rais­ing seri­ous ques­tions about […] [read full story]

    Posted in: Asia, China, economy, Finance, Politics, Trade, Trade Finance, Travel Log

  4. Sunshine’s Travel Log Blog – Day 5– The Land of Mao

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    Around noon­time on Sun­day, I arrived in Bei­jing.  After check­ing into the hotel, I decided to get some lunch where I was given today’s edi­tion of China Daily, a.k.a., “The National Eng­lish Lan­guage News­pa­per,” estab­lished by the Com­mu­nist Party in the 1980’s.  Accord­ing to the China Daily web site, it is the most author­i­ta­tive and […] [read full story]

    Posted in: China, economy, Finance, Politics, Public Policy, Trade

  5. Sunshine’s Travel Log Blog: Day 1 – The 8% Mantra

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    8% is the magic num­ber for China and every­one that I met today in Hong Kong knew it. Con­ven­tional wis­dom is that if the econ­omy grows by 8% in 2009 all will be well for the Peo­ples Repub­lic of China. The crash­ing export sec­tor won’t be a prob­lem. Tens of thou­sands of busi­ness fail­ures won’t […] [read full story]

    Posted in: BANKS, China, Economic Statistics, economy, Finance, Politics, Trade, Travel Log

  6. MONEY SUPPLY AND ECONOMIC DATA WEEKLY WATCH (Part 2 – GDP and US competitiveness)" rel="bookmark">MONEY SUPPLY AND ECONOMIC DATA WEEKLY WATCH (Part 2 – GDP and US competitiveness)

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    Gross Domes­tic Prod­uct Two num­bers from this week’s GDP release for Q2 2008 caught my eye, (i) exports were up 9.2% and (ii) imports were down 6.6%. For sev­eral months I have been dis­cussing improv­ing US global com­pet­i­tive­ness and the sec­ond quar­ter GDP release sup­ports my analy­sis. US exports are surg­ing and US firms are com­pet­ing […] [read full story]

    Posted in: China, Competitiveness, Exports, Finance, GDP, Imports, Inflation, Manufacturing, New York Times, Trade, US Steel