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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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From: rr_burns2/1/2009 1:14:54 AM
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OT: Why is the US$ so strong now? What will signal a drop?

Looking for succinct answers to these 2 questions, and this forum looks to have possible answers.

Thoughts?

To start: I accepted the idea that the international settlement of debt ( particularly with Japan) was driving demand for the currency... but is that still what is at work?

I'm thinking there is a US$ bubble forming, and as a Canadian see nothing but trouble ahead if this is the case - particularly given the "buy american" rhetoric in a lot of the legislation around the infrastructure build spending. Will that legislation lead to a collapse in the US$? Or is the collapse in the US$ an easy way to get rid of international debt ( by paying in cheap dollars), and the whole thing is intentional?
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