599# ectopic
I would agree with you on the asians kept shorting their currency. And i would agree with you on the asians should learn to wean off their reliance on cheap currencies.
But i don't think QE will do as much as it was supposed to do. With the increasing liquidity in the market, money will naturaly folw to the 'hot spots', ie devoleping markets, and create commodity bubbles. Just see the rally of commodity stocks in chinese market, that's the direct cause of QE2, and it's a rally caused purely by liquidity, that's just pure bubble.
On the US homeland, i don't think QE2 will have a fundamental effect on the economy. The money can't flow into private sector or small business. It happened here in the UK at QE1, and I suspect it will still be the case for QE2.
In fact this QE thing is just like drinking 'red bull', you feel strong but are still in serious sickness. And the fact is, economy fundermentals aren't improving, but dollar keeps falling like a knife. The world do get inflation, not in the homeland as the fed wants, but in all the devoleping countries where inflation is already high.
I don't have a view on weather the dollar had been overvalue or not. But Intended to do it or not, the greatest result the feds get from QE2 will still be the falling of dollar, which is in favour of US export.