It was because of Basel III, International rules re globally active banks. They don’t care about us. They thing we are too fat and spoiled and ripe for the picking. But we’ve already been harvested, and crashed in 2008. Will they ever favor us and DROP that dopey Dollar soon? For their own good?
Or else there will be nothing to harvest from us later. That would explain “Trump” the America first, lower taxes and high tariffs on imports agendas.