Singapore's Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said none of the ministers called for any sudden or significant change in exchange rates, but said they should remain flexible.
VOA: standard.2009.11.12
Many factors will continue to influence the expected slowdown in consumer spending, but noneremain more cumbersome than the stalled unemployment rate and lack of newly-created jobs, NRF said.
Despite these pollyannish economic growth and record low unemployment projections, Ryan still assumes interest rates will remain near historic lows and that none of the cheap money showered onto the economy will ever find its way into the CPI.