eur | The Clever Shark https://clevershark.com Bits and rants from Tony Emond Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:31:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 127613282 Is the greenback collapsing? https://clevershark.com/2009/06/is-the-greenback-collapsing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-the-greenback-collapsing https://clevershark.com/2009/06/is-the-greenback-collapsing/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:30:47 +0000 http://clevershark.com/?p=1908 Continue reading Is the greenback collapsing?]]> Here’s something that’s relatively easy to miss in these hard economic times where importing things from the US had become a luxury once again — there has been a sharp but sustained drop in the value of the US dollar recently. It’s fairly dramatic, too — in the past 3 months the value of the Canadian dollar has gone from $.77 to$ .92 US. That’s almost a 20% rise in the space of a quarter.

There isn’t really anything currently going on in Canada to warrant this sort of price movement, and indeed much the same story is revealed when looking up the relative values of the Euro and the Pound; even the Japanese yen is appreciating despite the plethora of political and economic bad news coming from Tokyo.

Nope — this is not about other currencies appreciating. This is about the USD tanking, and a low dollar means that Americans will spend more for the imports on which their economy depends. This heralds the onset of inflation in the American market. If Americans think they’ve had it tough since October, they’re in for a rude awakening.

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