A Trump devaluation and global currency war?

news.goldseek.com / By Michael J. Kosares / 2 February 2017

What it could mean for gold

“But the chaotic start to the administration and what many see as its protectionist agenda have amplified fears of not only currency wars but a fully fledged trade confrontation that could be disastrous for the world economy.” Financial Times 2/2/2016

MK note:  [OPINION] President Trump and National Trade Council head Peter Navarro have launched verbal assaults on the Japanese yen, Chinese yuan and the euro labeling all three undervalued the result of deliberate currency policies in the three countries.  “With his statement [Mr Navarro] has in fact fired the next salvo in the currency war the US administration is currently conducting against the rest of the world,” says Ulrich Leuchtmann of Germany’s Commerzbank.

The fact of the matter is that the United States can no longer devalue the dollar as effortlessly (with the stroke of pen) as if the world were still on a dollar-based gold standard.  In such a system, the United States could, and did, devalue the dollar by simply raising the official benchmark price of gold (1971,1973).

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