Actually Robert Rubin, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was concerned that foreign deposits keep flowing in to Wall Street for the benefit of the Financial Sector - too feed what Yanis Varoufakis dubbed 'The Global Minotaur'. Rubin was totally indifferent to the fate of US manufacturers, who were faced with an overvalued dollar in export markets, as Wall Street was making money out of buying them up, liquidating their physical assets, firing their workers and sending the machine tools to China where they would grind out products at a lower labor cost. Regardless of the actual value of the dollar Rubin wanted the financial sector, but especially their US customers, to think that the dollar was as strong as possible to keep the confidence fairy exuberantly fluttering over them. That was what all of the trade agreements were about.  

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