Monday, September 14, 2009

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- September 14, 2009 (Evening edition)


China Fortifies As U.S. Currency Sinks Further -- Hudson Institute

Gold is up (over $1,000 per ounce), oil is up (over $70 per barrel), other commodities are up and the dollar is ... down (a lot). Which is both good news and bad news.

As the world’s economies recover, so does investors’ appetite for risk, which means that they no longer feel they have to keep their funds in the dollar — a relatively safe place.

So far so good. But there is another reason the dollar is around its lowest level in a year. The Obama administration has no policy to prevent the dollar from sinking further. In fact, the administration’s policy is a torpedo aimed at the dollar’s strength and acceptability as the world’s reserve currency.

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COMMENTARIES, OPINIONS, AND EDITORIALS

The New Rules: In Afghanistan, It's About More Than Just the U.S. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett, World Politics Review

Did Afghan War Reporter Endanger Lives? -- Tunku Varadarajan, Forbes

Obama Fumbling Chance for Mideast Peace -- M. Zuckerman, US News

9/12 was a transformative event -- Clarice Feldman and Rosslyn Smith, American Thinker

The biggest bully on the block doesn’t always win -- Tom Streithorst, American Conservative

Netanyahu plays a Russian rope trick -- Sreeram Chaulia, Asia Times

Mystery of Kim’s successor deepens -- Sunny Lee, The National

The Forgotten War (Iraq) -- Washington Post, editorial

Former Republics Buck Russia's Influence -- David Stern, Global Post

Mexico's Hopeless Drug War -- Mary O'Grady, Wall Street Journal

9/12: The Revolution Has Begun -- Chris Burgard, Big Hollywood

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