Monday, October 29, 2007

Conductor Extraordinaire: Hank Paulson (United States Secretary of the Treasury and ex-CEO at Goldman Sachs)

"The US has responded in an ad hoc way by carrying on a “strategic dialogue” with China – by far the largest economy with an exchange rate linked to the dollar – backed by congressional threats to address exchange rate issues using the tools of trade policy and references to communiqués from the Group of Seven leading industrial nations. In reality the dialogue is anything but strategic. Like so much of American international policy in recent years, it seems to confuse the firm statement of legitimate desire with the serious conduct of diplomacy."

Lawrence Summers (United States Secretary of the Treasury and M.D. at D.E. Shaw)

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