Check out the dollar, USD upper left, 3 mo view. Can’t possibly be natural market forces. All other currencies inversely lower. Everything is priced in dollars.
http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=CURRENCIES&p=d1
18 month view. Manually pushed higher late June early July 2014. 18% higher in 8 months for a currency acting like a dot-com stock can’t be normal.
http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=CURRENCIES&p=w1
The all time high was around 1980 with a 21% prime. A strong dollar policy (with falling rates, yoga) during Clinton ran $ up to 120 ’92-.00, causing .99 cent gasoline, $4 silver $250 gold, .42 cent Diesel, .46 cent copper, and steel scrap was totally worthless in ’01.
http://www.mrci.com/pdf/dx.pdf
I assume the Bankers think the USA economy was replenished enough, between 2009 to June 2014. And the other freeloader burden countries suffered too much between ’09 and June 2014.