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“Why is the Fed so desperate to prop up the Dollar even as exports go into the Trash.”
The Fed is global. My guess is they wanted to give Europe’s economy a little spin, because they needed it, started failing, and the USA was doing ok enough to be sacrificed with a stronger dollar for a while.
I suspect more evidence will show up that the US economy is slowing, and the Fed with reverse or rotate the trend, lower dollar.