| Emerging markets' currencies are crashing, and their central banks are busy tightening policy, trying to stabilize their countries' financial markets. Who is to blame for this state of affairs?
A few years ago, when the US Federal Reserve embarked on yet another round of "quantitative easing," some emerging-market leaders complained loudly. They viewed the Fed's open-ended purchases of long-term securities as an attempt to engineer a competitive devaluation of the dollar and worried that ultra-easy monetary conditions in the United States would unleash a flood of "hot money" inflows, driving up their exchange rates...............................................Full Article: Source
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