But within the Central Bank and the Finance Ministry, a weak dollar is just as dirty.
All this with a weak dollar offset by the high cost of oil imports.
Some would say the same about the UK. A weak dollar could make that more difficult.
For a weak dollar is surely the last thing that it needs just at the moment.
They have lived under a weak dollar for 12 years and suffered its consequences.
We have had a weak dollar (especially against gold) and weak aggregate demand at the same time.
"They have better trickle-down economics, are not affected by a weak dollar or whatever else, " he says.
Obama's economic agenda has been a weak dollar, tax increases, massive domestic "stimulus" spending and increased regulation.
It is both a vital part of much jewelry and a hedge against inflation and a weak dollar.
"Earlier this year, manufacturing was held up by a weak dollar, but that dynamic has changed, " Wyss noted.
People have long viewed gold, rightly or wrongly, as a hedge against high inflation and a weak dollar.
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Brazil will still suffer from high interest (and a weak dollar), an artefact of a suboptimal fiscal policy regime.
Compounding this destructive foolishness was the Bush Administration's belief that a weak dollar would help improve our trade balance.
Net exports, buoyed by a weak dollar, lifted the sagging economy in 2007.
Nor is it only Japan that will be concerned about a weak dollar.
Third, the historic record is overwhelming that, while intuitively appealing, a weak dollar does far more harm than good.
Bush 43 wanted a weak dollar, and the Federal Reserve gave him one.
Some people think a weak dollar is terrible, but for exporters like us, it's not a bad deal at all.
Favored by a weak dollar, Deere benefited from a 6% favorable currency translation move, while net equipment sales grew 10%.
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Obama and his economic advisors clearly believe that a weak dollar will boost exports and thereby the economy as a whole.
Rather than worry about a weak euro, Mr Summers might do well to contemplate the real possibility of a weak dollar.
Bill Clinton was no economist, but he understood that a weak dollar and the ensuing inflation it begets destroyed Jimmy Carter's presidency.
Because the Bush Administration likes a weak dollar, feeling that it will improve our trade balance by artificially making our exports cheaper.
Another boost: a weak dollar and tourists who jaded by strip joints.
The Treasury Department bureaucracy has long believed in a weak dollar as a means of redressing the supposed problems of our trade imbalance.
The Bush Administration secretly likes a weak dollar because it improves exports and ignores the huge distortion that inflation causes in the economy.
Schultz made mention of rising commodity costs and the favorable effect of a weak dollar, as Starbucks brings in profits from around the world.
The lessons for the U.S, as we subsidize the failures made possible by a weak dollar with bailouts, and an ever weaker dollar, are many.
When a weak dollar makes imports more expensive, our standard of living goes down as we pay more for goods we buy at the mall.
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Obama's recipe for economic recovery has amounted to "doubling down" on many of the policies that produced the Great Recession (a weak dollar above all).
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