I’m talking about back in 2006… maybe less than 1% of the population would have been predicting a global bust.

I dunno about not seeing the global bust. Since the booms in India and China depended on selling us stuff and, in India’s case, outsourcing from the US, it seemed pretty obvious over a year ago that they would get hit when we did.

Curious as to whether the chart of the value of US exports more or less mirrored the value of the dollar against foreign currencies, i.e. we didn’t really export a lot more, but the number of dollars it took to pay for it varied. The chart for the US roughly corresponds to the FXE. Until last quarter of 08. Of course, my reasoning may be way off.

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