Monday, March 15, 2010

The Really Unfair Chinese Economic Advantage

If currency intervention with the aim of undervaluing the Chinese currency can be proven, there are official avenues to make that official through the IMF. This ought to be the next step. Guilt has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt before punishment can be envisioned.

The real problem with China is somewhere else: western plutocrats have used it as an avenue to avoid Western various regulations, especially about pollution. Thus an unfair trade practice and a world pollution (Chinese pollution strikes the USA). The way out is to install a carbon tax, as France is in the process of doing. Then it could go worldwide, and China will lose an enormous comparative advantage of the criminal type (coal Chinese pollution poisons the Arctic with condensing mercury vapor, for example).

Plutocrats used Nazism in a similar way, starting 90 years ago (yes plutocratic intervention and procreation of Nazism preceded its existence). In that case, American plutocrats, starting in the 1920s were able to turn around American anti-monopoly laws, and, later many other laws. Plutocracy fed fascism, and reciprocally. When fascism died, plutocracy thrived even more, and here we are…

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