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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (44179)12/22/2008 12:18:50 AM
From: energyplay  Respond to of 220207
 
Some people (I forgot where I read it, maybe FT) see currency movements as hitting trade almost as hard as the Smoot-Harley tariff and other countries' tariffs did.

The rapid movement of currencies makes it more expensive to hedge the currency movement, acting like a tax on trade.



To: Hawkmoon who wrote (44179)12/23/2008 1:42:52 PM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 220207
 
This is structural. Not cyclical. Thus "unemployment bottom out and consumer confidence reasserting itself" is way into the future.


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