My take on the situation? Opposite. After the 2008 meltdown I believe TPTB (global quacks) decided it was high time to rebuild the USA for their own future good. They started lowering the dollar to help USA after ’08. Actually they started dropping dollar in ’01 at 120 dollar index.
The logic would be that the rest of the world was rebuilt after 1945, and by 2008, non USA countries were rebuilt enough, and USA was taken advantage of for so long after 1975 until 2008. After which they HAD to reverse the “situation”.
The USA, on the balls of its ass in 2009 after a long decline from 1975, (34 years) and the rest of the world started down after ’08 with a loaf under each arm.
The “recent” stronger dollar and lower Euro Yen etc that started in June 2014, was imo done to give temporary help for the newly declining Europe Japan etc. They probably figured USA was strong enough by June ’14 and Europe etc were hurting, so they decided to put USA recovery on a temporary hold mode that just ended Dec third.
My view USA recovery is back on, and Euro Yen etc were “thrown a bone” to shut them up a while. They are going back to continued slow gradual stealth pain probably for decades. The future for China Japan Europe Mexico etc will be exactly like USA’s future after 1979.
Mark my words. My hobby is telling the future. 🙂