Is the dollar really “very, very strong”?

The dollar has ceded ground recently amid speculation that the Trump administration will seek to bring it down. Indeed, the new president’s nomination for Secretary of the Treasury has reportedly claimed that the currency is “very, very strong”. We disagree with that particular assertion

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