* doesn't like China's currency?

[deek]

This arrogance and fingerpointing is ludicrous! Why is there only a picture--not accompanying news story to rate into view-- about this?

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Wed Oct 1, 8:56 PM ET

President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s administration turned up the heat on China to abandon the yuan-dollar peg, blamed for shutting out US exports and destroying American jobs.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)




http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/031002/241/5g1k3.html

[Jacobin]

1. Unemployment??? It must be somebody else's fault

Surely it couldn't be the result of Smirky's fiscal policies!

[charlie]

2. Even the Economist

is shitting their britches over Dubya's hamfisted moves to weaken the dollar and force China to float the yuan:

http://www.economist.com/agenda/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=2098722

[cprise]

3. Boohoo... Bush is getting the NAFTA treatment from an even bigger gorilla

.

[ieoeja]

4. Exchange Rate

I'm sure he doesn't give a flying flip what their currency looks like. China has acted to keep their currency artificially undervalued. Japan frequently does the same.

[Paulie]

5. Great, piss of China some more

So they will stop buying our debt.