cheapybob

Compared with Canada, U.S. Economy Looks OK

I agree with all the above. IMO, the difference is the Canadians are issuing real numbers, and we are issuing fudged numbers.

How Bad Is the Dollar's Fall?

From looking at the graph of the trade weighted dollar, you can see that there is something drastically wrong. What's misleading, IMO, is that we are buying oil in dollars, and if instead, we were buying it in the home currencies of the countries selling it, or ruples, as VZ has proposed, it would change the graph dramatically. As our foreign debt increases, so will the likelihood of this happening.