The president. The president is the chief executive of the U.S. government. Glad I could help :)
A common practice was to pay ridicilously small wages to workers themselves and pay even less to children and women who were working at factories. Another thing that was done was to either import foreign workers who would have to work for even less, or to move production to companies overseas where they would set up a distribution and where workers themselves would also have to work for very small amounts of money. This increased their profit margins.
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A. Japan Devalued it's Currency. This lowered the value of its money compared to foreign currencies. Likewise, Japanese products were less expensive than imports.
