Dollar vs. Euro Suggests Bush Economic Plan Fails Basic Market Test

Posted on December 1, 2003 by Michael Froomkin

Once again justifying the Economist's Big Mac Index, which had been saying the dollar was overvalued, the dollar has been crashing against the Euro. This is particularly noteworthy as the Euro-area is not itself in the most wonderful economic shape. Which means that the currency traders think we're in even worse shape (click the imgage for details of the slide over the last 30 days). Lovely.

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3 Responses to Dollar vs. Euro Suggests Bush Economic Plan Fails Basic Market Test

  1. Roland says:
    January 8, 2004 at 12:20 pm

    What I fail to understand is why the high inflation rate in the economically strong euro-area states doesn’t have a negative impact on the euro: in Germany, prices on pretty much every item in the typical household shopping basket have risen an astonishing 100% since the conversion from DM to Euro. Normally I’d expect countries with this high an inflation rate to have rather weak currencies. What do I fail to see?

  2. Zeeshan Ghazi says:
    March 6, 2004 at 10:30 am

    What about the rising trend of euro vs dollars. How many times will the euro worth will increase after UK will accept euro as its currency.

  3. Fred says:
    May 19, 2004 at 1:05 pm

    The value of the dollar vs the euro is directly related to the demand for dollars vs the demand for euros. Example: if we sell more products overseas, then our dollar is in higher demand, this is because we only accept dollars. The opposite is also true, if we sell nothing overseas, then the demand for the dollar becomes low.

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