Big accusation
In an interview with the Wiener Zeitune newspaper, Nowotny says the US Treasury Department is deliberately putting pressure on the dollar and wants to keep it low.
That's a hefty accusation.
Via Google Translate:
"Wiener Zeitung":Is US President Donald Trump with his idiosyncratic style of government and his tweets a danger or an uncertain factor for the international financial and economic world?
Ewald Nowotny: Yes, definitely. What astonishes us are two other things .On the one hand, that the US Treasury wants to deliberately push the US dollar and keep it low, and on the other hand, that in the environment of Donald Trump, where there are a number of reasonable people, nobody has made a positive impact on the president and his politics."
For Dutch speakers:
Einerseits, dass das US-Finanzministerium den US-Dollar bewusst drückt und niedrig halten will, und andererseits, dass es im Umfeld von Donald Trump, wo es ja eine Reihe vernünftiger Menschen gibt, niemand geschafft hat, einen positiven Einfluss auf den Präsidenten und seine Politik zu haben.
