Currency Swaps, the Dollar, and a Tilted Playing Field

by cmartenson

Some pretty big news came out on Thursday (9/24/09) regarding a seemingly obscure program to end what were called "currency infusions."

In fact, these are "currency swaps," and you might want to pay attention to them, because of their high degree of correlation with the rise and fall of the dollar.  Currency swaps also offer the perfect vehicle for central banks to engage in currency intervention and manipulation, especially if one of the parties (*cough*US*cough) has a massive trade imbalance and lacks sufficient FOREX reserves to use in daily market intervention activities.

Here's the news:

Currency Swaps, the Dollar, and a Tilted Playing Field

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