Many in Congress are typically over the issue of China and currency manipulation, but I say to you that starting a trade war and sanctions over this matter is a dead-end, economically speaking that’s and yes, Geithner is correct, it can be a silly move, and completely politically motivated. Now, I don’t for starters minute deny that China has manipulated its currency downward, refusing allowing it to float up against the dollar. But whose idea was this originally?

The Nixon Administration favored a weak US Dollar against other world currencies that can help our nation with trade deficits – so, you are able to say that the US is partly responsible in using a comparable scheme, albeit within the 1970s and 1980s. If you will recall, just about any Treasury Secretary of each administration inside the US has discussed this, and previously our manufacturing sector was obviously a good number of our total GDP and job component, not really much anymore, today about 8% in our jobs are manufacturing. And really, we use a tremendous amount of robots to complete a lot of work with so many manufacturing sub-sectors today.

Will increased tariffs on China really force China release a its currency looking at the current confines? Sure, it may work because of this, or it could possibly very well take up a trade war, and crush the majority of the DOW Stocks which count on China being a market to sell goods. But regardless of whether it did work temporarily; China will just print more income to keep its currency devalued and rehearse that money to enhance indigenous innovation strategies. Since China is manipulating its currency of course, if it allows it to elevate, all it has to perform is introduce stimulus from the name of economic stability, and viola! – their currency will devaluate even more back to where they need it.

If the US matches, we lose no matter what. As long as China is interested inside a win-lose strategy, eventually, we are going to both lose. If China will have fair along with us, just as fair-trade, they may win, and we’ll win, and in actual fact the whole world wins, otherwise, we have been most certainly both headed for; “mutually assured destruction to economy” or MADE, understanding that would be needless to say; Made in China!

Since, 30% from the Dow Jones Industrial average has significant sales to China and has now significant investments and factories there it’ll hurt US Stock Markets, thus investors, retirement accounts, and pension funds, you must realize already are under severe stress.

An interesting article to see on this topic was recently published on September 30, 2010 in Industry Week, entitled; “China Currency Bill Garners Mixed Reactions From Industry Groups – Steel Associations and Labor Groups support Measure, but Others Say Bill Will Hurt US Exports,” by Jonathan Katz. I recommend considering those comments together with mine here today. Think about this and after that call someone in your cell phone, somebody you know and trust, who’s going to be knowledgeable on world economic issues, see what they have to think about the topic.