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Why Is the US Dollar so Strong Again?
Yahoo! News ^ | Harry Robertson

Posted on 05/18/2023 10:01:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway

If investors agree on one thing this year, it's that the dollar is going to fall. That's made the greenback's 2% bounce over the last month particularly confusing.

U.S. inflation is cooling and the Federal Reserve may pause its interest rate hikes next month. So the dollar should be on the way down, right?

Analysts say a number of factors are probably at play. One is that a range of worries - about the U.S. debt ceiling negotiations, the health of banks, and the global economy's outlook - are burnishing the dollar's safe-haven credentials.

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1 posted on 05/18/2023 10:01:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Analysts say a number of factors are probably at play. One is that a range of worries - about the U.S. debt ceiling negotiations, the health of banks, and the global economy's outlook - are burnishing the dollar's safe-haven credentials.

Quite true!

But mark my words: The U.S. dollar is going to crash!

(Just as soon as world peace is achieved, and investors no longer need a "safe haven.")

Regards,

2 posted on 05/18/2023 10:04:47 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, looking around, the big guy has a few bruises, but nobody wants to bet on the drunken Rooskie or the puffed-up Chicom or the foppish Eurotrash, and all the rest aren’t even pocket change.

Best of the world isn’t too bad.


3 posted on 05/18/2023 10:22:28 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: nickcarraway

with many of our trading partners already suffering from inflation and their own consumers purchasing power declining due to higher energy costs (europe)... this is not a good thing. Who will be able to afford american made products?


4 posted on 05/18/2023 10:59:45 PM PDT by Katya (lacking in the feelings department, )
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To: alexander_busek
For over 50 years there have been books and articles about the coming financial doom, the crash of the dollar, etc.

Yet to my amazement, it hasn't happened.

Of course at some point, it will, as all good things must come to an end.

The only question is when.

Is it starting right now?

This year?

Next year?

A hundred years from now?

Who knows?

5 posted on 05/19/2023 12:46:16 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: Mogger

I can see it going down once these millions of illegal alien “refugeez” start sending the “home” to their families.


6 posted on 05/19/2023 1:47:21 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since O'Bama was ruling the roost, America has gone from melting pot to septic tank of the world.)
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To: Mogger

the US dollar won’t be crashing,

as long as all the alternatives are worse ... as is currently the case

(BRICS fanboys most saddened)


7 posted on 05/19/2023 2:07:11 AM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: nickcarraway

2024!


8 posted on 05/19/2023 2:24:02 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: nickcarraway

Strong!?!?
Anyone shopped at the grocery lately?!?!


9 posted on 05/19/2023 5:26:02 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: nickcarraway

Imagine a classroom of the world’s currencies.

The U.S. has the highest grade in the class, but it is still an F-.


10 posted on 05/19/2023 6:03:56 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net

It’s like a 40 year old d—k. It comes and goes.


11 posted on 05/19/2023 7:12:18 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: nickcarraway

Because the European financial systems are on the verge of collapse.


12 posted on 05/19/2023 8:09:46 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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