• bobalot@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It is also because the USA is the reserve currency of the world with open capital markets.

    Savers of the world (including countries like Germany and China who have excess savings due to constrained consumer demand) dump their savings into US assets such as stocks.

    This leads to asset bubbles and an uncompetitively high US dollar.