{"id":1005,"date":"2004-01-06T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/interest-in-one-thing-reelection\/"},"modified":"2004-01-06T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2004-01-06T18:59:11","slug":"interest-in-one-thing-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/interest-in-one-thing-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Interest in one thing: reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"National Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/national\/nationalpost\/financialpost\/story.html?id=ba61fb16-4481-4862-b4b9-e8ccc872e12d\">Greenback slides on lack of Fed worries<\/a> by Peter Morton, Washington Bureau Chief, Financial Post<br \/>\nGovernor&#8217;s remarks back speculation rates will not rise<\/p>\n<p>Although the administration officially supports its strong U.S. dollar policy, there is widespread speculation in currency markets that Mr. Bush wants to see a weaker dollar to make it easier for U.S. exporters to sell abroad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It reaffirms the view the market has that U.S. policymakers are happy with the decline,&#8221; said Simon Flint, a market strategist with the Bank of American Corp. in Singapore. &#8220;They&#8217;re not going to stand in the way of further depreciation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Low interest rates help the market and don&#8217;t hurt billionaires (1% of $1bn is still $10m). Low interest rates only hurt everyone with a savings account. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenback slides on lack of Fed worries by Peter Morton, Washington Bureau Chief, Financial Post Governor&#8217;s remarks back speculation rates will not rise Although the administration officially supports its strong U.S. dollar policy, there is widespread speculation in currency markets that Mr. Bush wants to see a weaker dollar to make it easier for U.S. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/interest-in-one-thing-reelection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interest in one thing: reelection<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}