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How Long Can Hong Kong’s US dollar peg last?

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Philip Bowring
Nov 05, 2007
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Politics continues to override economics as Hong Kong and China confront the issues of rising inflation and a US dollar which is collapsing against most of the world’s currencies, especially Asian ones. The US dollar is towing Hong Kong’s currency down along with it.

Nobody could say Hong Kong isn’t obsessed with “face.” Just because the government has s…

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