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One metric we can look at to see if "dollar is imploding" is the exchange rate of USD to Euro/Yen/Pound over the past 20 years. None of those exchange rates indicate that the dollar is imploding. Instead they indicate that the dollar is extremely strong.

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Similarly we can look at that past 20 years of Euro/Yen/Pound against Argentinian Peso and conclude that it's all fine? Dollar is strong against other currencies only because of the global competitive devaluation.

USD is losing value rapidly. It's amusing to see politicians claiming credit for stocks going up while the food prices are up almost as much, but nobody is responsible for this one. Dollar is down massively and downplaying this fact is only encouraging more of the same.

> Similarly we can look at that past 20 years of Euro/Yen/Pound against Argentinian Peso and conclude that it's all fine?

Have you looked at those conversions?

One June 1st 2007, 1 Argentinian Peso was worth 0.082£, today it is 0.00078£.

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