{"id":50,"date":"2004-11-20T17:02:56","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T21:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/20\/weak-us-dollar-part-iii\/"},"modified":"2004-11-23T13:02:15","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T17:02:15","slug":"weak-us-dollar-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/20\/weak-us-dollar-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Weak US Dollar (Part III)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/10\/us-currency-iraq-etc\/\"> our look at the weak US dollar<\/a> we have a couple of articles from this week.<\/p>\n<p>First up is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200411\/s1247015.htm\">US dollar weakness worries EU<\/a>, which includes this tasty bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhile the US Treasury continues to insist the Bush administration favours a strong dollar, foreign exchange markets assume Washington is happy with a weak currency as a means to bolster exports.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And second up is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=YEXFVM12OTRCOCRBAEOCFFA?type=businessNews&#038;storyID=6855316\">this Reuters piece on the ongoing travails<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a little snippit from that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHowever, dollar sentiment remained weak amid its twin deficits and mounting expectations that the world&#8217;s economic powers will do little to halt the greenback&#8217;s fall.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Continuing our look at the weak US dollar we have a couple of articles from this week. First up is US dollar weakness worries EU, which includes this tasty bit: While the US Treasury continues to insist the Bush administration favours a strong dollar, foreign exchange markets assume Washington is happy with a weak currency as a means to bolster&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/20\/weak-us-dollar-part-iii\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}