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1. I thought the plunging dollar would help this situation. And aren't we doing better on Covid than

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Sep 18, 2020, 10:28 AM

Sep 2020

the rest of the world -- that our statistics look bad only because we test too much, according to the psychopath-in-chief? That foreign workers are dropping like flies? That our stock market proves that we've got Covid beat?

DXY dollar index down 6.5% from a year ago, 99% of that drop since March 31 (end of Q1).

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Current Account Deficit Widens by 52.9 Percent in Second Quarter [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 OP

I thought the plunging dollar would help this situation. And aren't we doing better on Covid than progree Sep 2020 #1