Attention Economy


Saturday, October 19, 2019

Economic Misunderstandings and Trade Wars


Taming the Currency Hype
https://blogs.imf.org/2019/08/21/taming-the-currency-hype/

Stephen S. Roach, a faculty member at Yale University and former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, notes:
“Despite years of denial, there can no longer be any doubt that the US is pursuing a bipartisan containment strategy vis-à-vis China. Whether justified or not, the real problem with this strategy is less the merits of the allegations leveled by US politicians than the incoherence of the Trump administration’s policies to address them.