Markets: What’s driving The US Dollar?
<p>A very simple answer</p>
<p>Here is a hypothetical question: <strong>what are other nations more afraid of — The US Military or The US Dollar?</strong> Answer: The US Dollar. This makes perfect sense. <strong>US Military action is almost always conducted in the public eye,</strong> and violence generally restricted to a relatively small area of the target nation. Also US Military action is time limited, the exceptions being nations such as Afghanistan, which rumbled on for about twenty years. By contrast</p>
<h1>THE US DOLLAR IS THE PERFECT STEALTH ASSASSIN</h1>
<p>While <strong>everyone notices aircraft carriers</strong> massing off a distant shore to exert pressure upon another nation, few notice <strong>when The US Dollar exerts economic pressure on another nation.</strong> Few except those residing in another nation. Just this week <strong>The Chinese and The Japanese have expressed concerns about the strong Dollar compared to the Yuan or Yen,</strong></p>
<h2><a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/business/economy/soaring-us-dollar-raises-alarm-as-china-japan-escalate-fx-pushback?source=post_page-----8fb08259628e--------------------------------" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Soaring US dollar raises alarm as China, Japan escalate FX pushback</a></h2>
<h3><a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/business/economy/soaring-us-dollar-raises-alarm-as-china-japan-escalate-fx-pushback?source=post_page-----8fb08259628e--------------------------------" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">China and Japan step up defence of their exchange rates. Read more at straitstimes.com.</a></h3>
<p><a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/business/economy/soaring-us-dollar-raises-alarm-as-china-japan-escalate-fx-pushback?source=post_page-----8fb08259628e--------------------------------" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">www.straitstimes.com</a></p>
<p>so it’s important to understand why. Let’<strong>s consider the impact</strong></p>
<h1><strong>FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF AN AMERICAN</strong></h1>
<p><strong>consumer, who pays in dollars for imports</strong> from either China or Japan. As <strong>the US Dollar strengthens</strong> <strong>the price of these imports falls.</strong> American can buy more of the stuff they like made in China or Japan. What’s not to like? But from the</p>
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