Tinkering with currency can't solve economic woes

ARTICLE - John Devine, chief financial officer at General Motors Corp., last week was the latest in a string of corporate executives complaining about the strength of the U.S. dollar. His timing wasn't perfect. The dollar has actually softened relative to the euro and yen in recent days, says George Melloan in the Wall Street Journal.

But it's the principle that counts, in the view of the corporate complainers. The U.S. manufacturing economy has slowed to a crawl this summer and it's an old

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