(Bloomberg Opinion) -- What a difference a decade makes. Back in September 2010, Guido Mantega, Brazil’s then-finance minister, was complaining bitterly about “currency wars,” and claiming the Federal ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- To President Donald Trump, and any other Group of 20 chief thinking about waging a currency war: It’s basically impossible to win. That's partly because they don't really happen ...

The latest hot topic among economic talking heads is the coming currency war. According to conventional wisdom, there’s a risk that major countries will – simultaneously – try to revive their sluggish ...

As if the global downturn hasn’t already given the market the beating of its life, it looks as if another almighty bruising stands between now and the next decade. In fact, it could follow us there ...

Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, touched a raw nerve when he stated in late September that an international currency war had broken out. It may seem like a war to Brazil, which has seen its ...

Some 53 percent of Americans now say they don’t much like free trade, compared with 32 percent a decade ago. In part that is due to unhappiness with the jobs situation. Today’s jobs report might have ...

There is a problem with currency depreciation, however: It is a zero-sum game. Whereas lowering interest rates can be done simultaneously to everyone’s benefit, getting your currency to fall has only ...