Monday, July 21, 2014

The currency wars

In October 2012, then Reserve Bank of India governor D Subbarao had asked visiting US Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and treasury secretary Timothy Geithner for a rupee-US dollar swap arrangement. The two had refused, saying the Indian rupee was not fully convertible and so it would not be possible for a swap to work. Two months later, the RBI signed a swap deal for $15 billion with the Bank of Japan. It has now been extended to $50 billion..............

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