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The dollar against other currencies has dropped considerably in the last 5 years and will continue to drop.

The Yen dollar ratio is kept artificially high by Japan for their own reasons.

The Yen might be a bad example for you.

And the dollar is stronger against the Euro over the last few years.

The dollar against other currencies has dropped considerably in the last 5 years and will continue to drop.

The Yen dollar ratio is kept artificially high by Japan for their own reasons.

The Yen might be a bad example for you.

And the dollar is stronger against the Euro over the last few years.

You're mistaken. The first graph in your post #512 is the U.S. Dollar to Yen conversion over the last five years. However, the second graph is the Euro to U.S. Dollar (not U.S. Dollar to Euro) conversion over last 2 (not 5) years. This can be seen in following two URLs of the two graphs:

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/5y?usdjpy=x http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/2y?eurusd=x

The 5y and 2y are for five-year and two-year spans and the usdjpy and eurusd are for U.S. Dollar to Yen and Euro to U.S. Dollar conversions. In any case, the following graph shows the conversion from the U.S. Dollar to five major currencies over the past five years:

As can be seen, the U.S Dollar is up versus the Euro (USDEUR=X) during the past year but down about 25 percent over the past 5 years. It is down about 20 percent against the British Pound (USDGBP=X), down about 25 percent against the Canadian Dollar (USDCAD=X) and Swiss Franc (USDCHF=X), and down about 30 percent against the Australian Dollar (USDAUD=X). It's only held up against the Japanese Yen against which it's about even (perhaps for the reason given by rcocean).

You can see the entire Yahoo page that contains the above graph (and make any changes) at this link.