Quantitative Easing Explained

US Fed is destroying the US dollar - The Daily Reckoning by Bill Bonner

The dollar went down. Why would anyone pay 100 cents for an old, worn out greenback when the Fed promises to create trillions more of them, brand spanking new? Europe and Japan resumed firing with their new QE guns. Asian nations sent out snipers to intervene in the currency markets directly. And China and the US resorted to "trench warfare," reported the Financial Times, neither apparently ready to give up an inch; that is, neither was prepared to allow its currency to buy more today than it did yesterday. In America, China has become an election-year bogeyman. The electorate seems convinced that any nation that stockpiles $2 trillion worth of America's I.O.U. greenbacks must be up to no good.

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US Fed is destroying the US dollar - The Daily Reckoning by Bill Bonner