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When Should China Float?

No amount of capital will rescue a badly run bank.

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This time, Russia has maintained a floating exchange rate, conserving its reserves.

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If the country has a floating exchange rate regime, the currency depreciates, too.

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Of course, the Fed s policy reversal could hurt countries that maintain fixed or, like China, managed floating exchange rates.

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Yet China's rulers are right to postpone the decision to float.

Barring an unlikely international agreement, China, like Germany in 1973, will have to let its currency float.

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No doubt, the Saudis believe that a Shia led Bahrain would lead to Iranian dominance at their very doorstep.

The rest of the world, particularly Germany, had no choice but to let their currencies float.

As any seasoned banker knows, a well managed bank should undertake internal stress tests regularly as a matter of good housekeeping.

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Floating the exchange rate would expose the country to instabilities that would lead to a host of further problems, particularly the country's shaky banking system.

Not so long ago, we were comforted by theorizing that floating exchange rates would mediate international adjustments in a timely and orderly way.

It would be a mistake to float the renminbi under today's speculative and external political pressures.

Under heavy pressure from America, China's leaders have agreed in principle to float the renminbi, but refuse to say when. A floating currency is inevitable as China liberalizes its capital market and eliminates restrictions on international capital movements otherwise, China would have to surrender control over its money supply and interest rates to the US.

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) responded to collapsing oil prices by floating the ruble, which immediately lost half its value.

Under heavy pressure from America, China's leaders have agreed in principle to float the renminbi, but refuse to say when.

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After the brief, unsuccessful attempt at exchange rate realignment known as the Smithsonian Agreement, the world's major currencies were floated in February 1973.

But in his great work on finance, Lombard Street, published in 1873, he asserted that, A well run bank needs no capital.

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Theories of democratic rollback and of a resurgence of authoritarian great powers surfaced to unveil the potential of systems that combined nationalism and state led growth yielding capitalism.

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Exchange rates When the dollar slumped a year ago and eroded European competitiveness still further, both the European led International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank proved impotent.

After all, the oft repeated principle that the IMF s managing director should be chosen on the basis of merit rather than nationality need not mean a departure from past practice.

But if it happens, it will not result from grassroots democratic experiments in towns and villages rather, it will be an elite driven transition, careful to preserve the government's control.

But, in the real world, many countries, particularly but not limited to small, open economies, simply find it impractical or undesirable to permit their currency to float.