Includes index.
Foreword / Charles Goodhart -- Currency on the skids -- Time to blow the whistle -- Monetary downturn compounds trade woes -- Hong Kong's financial crisis - history, analysis prescription -- How to rescue the Hong Kong dollar - three practical proposals -- The stabilisation of the Hong Kong dollar -- The operation of the new exchange rate mechanism -- Why the HK$/US$ linked rate system should not be changed -- Adjusting to the link -- Negative interest rates - a comparison of the Hong Kong and Swiss schemes -- Intervention replaces arbitrage - the July package of monetary measures -- The impact of the Tiananmen Square incident on Hong Kong's monetary system -- Epilogue.
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