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(from my diary on the "savings glut theory")

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buitler

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 2nd, 2009 at 12:43:55 PM EST
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The tricky thing about the Singapore peg is if you guess the composition and weights, you can do the composite exchange rate against the basket and see the peg as one or more straight lines (like the 1995/2005 period) ... until they change the composition.

But once you have three or four currencies in the basket that float against each other, the individual exchange rates start fluctuating simply due to internal movements within the basket.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue Jun 2nd, 2009 at 02:33:28 PM EST
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