Getting back to the original thread, the demise of the dollar: # The US dollar has now lost more than a third of its value (-35%) against a basket of major currencies since Feb 2002. # The decline is accelerating. The USD has shed -12.5% of its value in the last year, -3.5% in the last month, and -1.5% in the last week alone.
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/11/07/8713/the-dollars-slide-13-down-and-falling-faster/