USA Today: Jon Rosen: As he argues in his new book, Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis, QE is an “exercise in deception” that offers little chance of promoting long-term economic recovery. Worse, it has left the dollar highly vulnerable to speculation and, ultimately, a cataclysmic crash.
According to Rickards, a Wall Street insider with more than 30 years’ experience as a financial adviser and investment banker, the championing of QE by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is the “greatest gamble in the history of finance,” one that is setting the stage for a global financial meltdown far greater than the last.
While readers may view Rickard’s argument as scaremongering, the author adds heft to his analysis by exploring the disastrous history of attempts to promote economic growth through currency devaluation. According to Rickards, the currency war that began when QE was launched, creating growing exchange rate antagonism between the U.S. and China, is the world’s third in the past 100 years.
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