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A negative sum game

But a cheaper currency also leads to a decrease in demand for imports from the "global economy" - in the present case, mainly emerging markets - slowing their respective economies further, necessitating lower interest rates to lower their currencies to boost exports and reduce imports that weakens the "global economy" some more.

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