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U.S. Dollar: Still No Good Alternative

It works both ways.

1. Many currencies specially for emerging region lost their value against dollar in last decade or so, even after we factor in devaluation of dollar (within reasonable limit). No body can tell those countries are faired better by holding dollar reserves instead of their native currencies and reap additional benefit of diversification and risk mitigation.

2. In case of china, their US dollar reserves and their export business that help build those reserves are two sides of same coin. No body can tell where china would have been today without those exports and dollar rserves.

Short Squeeze Triggers Sharp Volatility in Stocks

Domino Toppling is always underestimated by those who do not have idea of big picture and effect it can have in other branches (other markets). That's most of us :-( Elephant is in the room. Takes days to make an arrangement and takes minutes to fall. (Takes a week to lose what was gained in five years.) Each end of domino is marked with a number of spots (also called pips - hum ). Short squeeze is one of the reasons....cause or effect we don't know.