Why America's Currency Is the World's Problem

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Why America's Currency Is the World's Problem
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...520700,00.html

While Asia finances America's excessive consumer spending, the Americans buy Asia's cheap T-shirts, cars and flat-screen TVs. "Getting this much into debt while at the same time enjoying returns on long-term government bonds of less than 5 percent -- I'd call it the biggest free lunch in modern economic history," says Harvard historian Niall Ferguson, referring to the audacity with which the Americans take advantage of their privileges as holders of the world's reserve currency.

I like the German’s nuts and bolts reporting, it’s a long article that I enjoyed very much.

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Re: Why America's Currency Is the World's Problem

Introduction to Episode One of Niall Ferguson's War of the World.