Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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The Chinese yuan, Gerald Ford, and St. Augustine

December 15th, 2006 · No Comments

The media and the blogosphere have been alive this week with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chariman Ben S. Bernanke’s trip to Beijing. Washington still feels the best way to quiet the clamor over the trade imbalance with China is to pressure Beijing to raise the value of the yuan. This week’s Economist [...]

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