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7/11/07

Times Online: Dollar Crash - Is the puny dollar a sign of America’s decline? - Anatole Kaletsky

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Dollar Crash - Is the puny dollar a sign of America’s decline? - Anatole Kaletsk

Yesterday, the pound and the euro hit their highest levels in a generation against the US dollar. The dollar, meanwhile, collapsed to a record low against an average of all the world’s major currencies. It is tempting to interpret the flight from the dollar in financial markets as the clearest, most objective, indicator of America’s relative decline.

Europe has long been derided as an ageing, sclerotic continent, doomed to irrelevance in a world dominated by America and Asia. But could it actually be America, not Europe, that is failing to compete in the globalised world economy and is now threatened with long-term decline?

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