A dollar was worth 200 yen in 1980. Twenty five years later, the exchange rate had strengthened to 110 yen per dollar.

It was hard work engineering a five trillion dollar deterioration in America s fiscal position.

The dollar is already down 25 over the past five years, and if the US tips into recession a 50 50 chance right now the dollar is going to drop a lot more.

A dollar crisis is not around the corner, but it is certainly a huge risk over the next five to 10 years.

When the five minutes were over, I would say, Pass me the sheets of paper, and I'll pay you a dollar per question.

The cost of buying protection against fluctuations in the euro dollar exchange rate declined last month to its lowest level in nearly five years.

In fact, while the dollar depreciated during the last half of 2003, resulting in huge exchange gains in 2003, during the first five months of 2004, the dollar appreciated by 3 per cent against the euro and other major currencies.

And it was a perfect drug. You could sell for buy the cocaine that went into it for a dollar, sell it for five dollars.

A shipment of an equivalent dollar amount of fertilizer and improved seeds from, say, the United States to Africa would yield perhaps five times more food.

From 1973 to 1985, US energy consumption per dollar of GDP declined by 28 five times faster than during the previous quarter century, according to the DOE.

Finally, and also five years too late, the US Treasury secretary should announce that while the strong dollar doctrine was appropriate (and in America s interest) during the dot com boom, the country needs a weak dollar in the aftermath of the austerity bomb s detonation.

As such, the Spanish dollar was worth slightly more than the U.S. dollar, and likewise, the Newfoundland dollar, until 1895, was worth slightly more than the Canadian colonial dollar.

Bottom Dollar

The Dollar

After the Dollar

China s Dollar Problem

The Falling Dollar

Two Dollar Fallacies

Liberia used the United States dollar as its currency from 1943 until 1982 and continues to use the U.S. dollar alongside the Liberian dollar.

In other words, the market is betting that the dollar will fall gradually in the next five years, and that the US current account deficit will narrow without a financial crisis.

The Fed s Dollar Distraction

But not the dollar.

Doomsday for the Dollar?

Goodbye to the Dollar?

The Death Defying Dollar

The Unloved Dollar Standard

We started by making a 350,000 dollar loan to the largest traditional bed net manufacturer in Africa so that they could transfer technology from Japan and build these long lasting, five year nets.

And today, less than five years in, Kiva's facilitated more than 150 million dollars, in little 25 dollar bits, from lenders and entrepreneurs more than a million of those, collectively in 200 countries.

While the renminbi has risen relative to the dollar, the dollar has declined against other major currencies.

After years of decline against the U.S. dollar, lempira recently stabilized at around 19 lempiras per dollar.

The Dollar is Still King

Don t Fear a Rising Dollar

The Return of the Dollar

How to Kill a Dollar

The Dollar and Its Rivals

Subsequently the dollar did decline.

The Dollar and the Dragon

The Future of the Dollar

The Three Trillion Dollar War

What Can Replace the Dollar?

In addition to the immediate emergency assistance we have provided and continue to provide, the Australian Government has announced a 1 billion Australian dollar, five year partnership for reconstruction and development between Australia and Indonesia.

If foreign holders of dollar bonds become concerned that the unsustainability of America s situation will lead to higher interest rates and a weaker dollar, they will want to sell dollar bonds.

The South Korean won was initially pegged to the U.S. dollar at a rate of 15 won 1 dollar.

These efforts led to major improvements in energy efficiency. From 1973 to 1985, US energy consumption per dollar of GDP declined by 28 five times faster than during the previous quarter century, according to the DOE.

The Dollar Joins the Currency Wars