Currency 'Race to the Bottom' Could Start a Trade War

Amid the recent rout of the US dollar, fears of an all-out trade war have been stoked globally. The G20 finance heads are now struggling to find common ground on current account imbalances that will avert the inevitable. The point should not be lost on anyone that none of these leaders is really concerned about why these imbalances exist, but rather they're only focusing on avoiding the negative consequences of poor fiscal behavior stacked up over the past several decades. It is for these reasons that any accords that are reached now will fail.