Since Trump, US dollar is getting killed.

Trump may be reveling in the stock market's gains since his election victory, but the dollar is going in the other direction. It is getting killed.

When Trump was elected the Dollar Index was at 98. Now it's at 90. Dollar/yen was at 118, now it's at 110. Euro/dollar was at 1.04, now it's at 1.23. British pound was at 1.23, now it's at 1.37. Canadian dollar was at 1.36, now it's at 1.24.

Trump has been a disaster for the dollar.

What's more, the dollar's fall is still in its early stages. With his monkey idiot Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, and the endless sanctions on everybody--the literal weaponization of the US dollar--these fools have set in motion a powerful trend of global "de-dollarization."

It is becoming plainly obvious to countries and institutions around the world that the risk of being shut out of the global, dollar-based transaction and clearing system is too great so alternatives are being sought. This is one explanation for the rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrenices. You can also see it in newly emerging bilateral agreements between nations, such as China and Russia, where transactions and trade are being conducted in ruble and yuan.

Add to this the fiscal stimulus of the tax cuts (money printing) and the Fed's rate hikes which they stupidly believe squash inflation. (5 rate hikes since Dec 2015 and inflation up, dollar down, gold up, oil up.)

It's over for the dollar. Trump and Mnuchin...the tag team that will destroy the dollar.

Get short, everybody. Get short.

USDCAD looks like it's breaking down. Oil rallying, too. That would support this view.

Below is a weekly chart of USDCAD. Looks like a pretty clean breakdown of the dollar against Canada.

Oil is rallying, too, which would support this view.

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Iceland adopting the Canadian dollar? Didn't they learn anything?

Iceland’s fear of the euro collapsing has caused one of Iceland’s political parties to openly suggest the idea of going Canadian and dropping the idea of EU membership and currency.

Iceland just went through economic hell thanks to borrowing in other peoples' currencies.

They were thinking about joining the euro, but that idea is flagging. Good!

But now they openly discussing adopting the Canadian dollar as their currency.

Haven't they learned anything???

If Iceland keeps doing this stuff they won't need to wait for a really big volcanic eruption to wipe them out. They'll do it to themselves.