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The US economy: an update

PSL Quarterly Review

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Title The US economy: an update
 
Creator Sacchetti, Ugo
 
Subject
US economy, exchange reserves, exchange rates
E66, O51
 
Description This article updates one of four trends in the US economy which were highlighted in a previous paper "Whither the US economy" published in 1999 in this Review. It focuses on the developments in the external accounts. In addition to showing a rapid increase in the negative US current account balance, the article stresses the importance of two new developments which have acquired increasing prominence: the accumulation of large foreign exchange reserves, mainly in US dollars, by other countries especially in Asia and the accumulation by those countries of large amounts of US Treasury securities. The resulting new situation has serious potential worldwide repercussions should those countries decide to diversify their reserves and to reduce their holdings of US securities. These prospects call for solutions with global participation, and which are much broader in scope, including structural changes, than mere readjustments of exchange rates between the US dollar and the currencies of the main surplus countries.  JEL Codes: E66, O51 
 
Publisher Economia civile
 
Contributor
 
Date 2012-04-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://annalidibotanica.uniroma1.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview/article/view/9834
 
Source PSL Quarterly Review; Vol 58, No 232 (2005)
PSL Quarterly Review; Vol 58, No 232 (2005)
2037-3643
ISSN 2037-3635
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://annalidibotanica.uniroma1.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview/article/view/9834/9719
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Ugo Sacchetti
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