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Economist.comOPINION Economics focus Stop worrying and love the deficit Nov 27th 2003 From The Economist print edition America's current-account deficit poses few dangers, says Alan Greenspan. Except to Europeans IN THE past year the United States has run up a current-account deficit of more than $500 billion. Some think that the line of credit extended by the res

From The Economist print edition Why the dollar still rules the world-and why the world should be grateful THE dollar is looking vulnerable. It is propped up not by the strength of America's exports, but by vast imports of capital. America, a country already rich in capital, has to borrow from abroad almost

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The economic emergence of a fixed exchange rate periphery in Asia has reestablished the United States as the center country in the Bretton Woods international monetary system. We argue that the normal evolution of the international monetary system involves the emergence of a periphery for which the development strategy is export-led growth supported by undervalued exchange rates

The second column calculates Big Mac PPPs by dividing the local currency price by the American price. For instance, in Japan Big Mac costs￥22. Dividing this by the American price of$2.90 produces a dollar PPP against the yen of Y90, compared with its current rate of Y113, suggesting