Global Corporate Earnings Putting Overvalued Dollar in Spotlight
A look at what some senior executives are saying this earnings season about the dollar’s misalignment with the major currencies of the world.
Is a Strong Dollar Really all That Important?
Ex-World Banker John Hansen explains why a strong dollar might not be as good as the Washington-Wall Street consensus would have us think.
Lighthizer in The Economist: If Trade Deficit Persists Like This, U.S. Will ‘Bleed to Death’
Wall Street will have to get used to a weaker dollar. If not, trillion-dollar trade deficits will be the norm. This comes at great expense to America’s industrial base, and the middle class.
Opinion | Biden jobs plan can be paid for by fixing overvalued U.S. dollar
President Biden is showing that he’s serious about his pledge to “Build Back Better.” His new $2.3 trillion “American Jobs Plan” offers a blueprint for both investing in the nation’s infrastructure and rebuilding U.S. manufacturing. Now, it’s Congress’s turn to weigh in on the specifics of the president’s proposal—and how to pay for it. If…
Foreign Direct Investors will Love the Market Access Charge (MAC)
By John R. Hansen, CPA Advisory Board Would the MAC discourage foreign direct investment in the United States? Some readers have suggested that capital being brought into the United States to finance greenfield foreign direct investment should be exempted from the MAC. We should not, they argue, do anything to discourage productivity enhancing investment in America’s manufacturing…