But it is hard to link currencies. Europe needed the memory of war and 20 years of preparation. Asia is not even close. JP Morgan argues that an Asian exchange rate mechanism would offer regional selfreliance and an escape from the sinking dollar.
Edward Hadas is a former economics editor at Reuters Breakingviews and also worked at the Financial Times as assistant editor of the Lex column. Before becoming a journalist, he worked for 23 years as an equity analyst in Europe and the United States. He has written a book, “Human Good, Economic Evils: A Moral Approach to the Dismal Science” (ISI Books, 2007), and is a visiting senior fellow in the School of Management and Social Sciences at St. Mary’s University, London. Edward has degrees from Columbia University, Wadham College, Oxford and the State University of New York at Binghamton.
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