I felt the need to put the recent dollar weakness into some broader context. So last weekend, I showed this simple 15 year chart of the dollar, showing the huge 41.5% coolapse from 2001-08, versus the current 15+% drop.
The feedback was surprisingly; apparently, many of those currently freaking out about the dollar missed it last time.
Today, let’s show an even longer term chart — this one, incorporating the 1980s collapse — the worst of the 3 we have experienced in the past 40 years.
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Annotated chart via David Singer
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Previously:
Dollar’s Biggest Decline? 2001-08 (April 23rd, 2011)
Currency Wars! (October 11th, 2010)
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