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China alarmed by US money printing

Posted by smeddum on September 7, 2009

China alarmed by US money printing

Telegraph

The US Federal Reserve’s policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and compel China to redesign its foreign reserve policy, according to a top member of the Communist hierarchy.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in Cernobbio, Italy

06 Sep 2009

Working for the Yankee dollar: Beijing is said to be dismayed by the Fed’s recourse to ‘credit easing’ Photo: Reuters Cheng Siwei, former vice-chairman of the Standing Committee and now head of China’s green energy drive, said Beijing was dismayed by the Fed’s recourse to “credit easing”. Read the rest of this entry »

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