Dollar Dying Slow Death As Switch To Yen and Euro Begins

The long slow decline of the American economy as the driver of international business has begun. Bernanke has been printing money like a drunken college student with Daddy’s credit card, and now the price is being paid for the binge.

Massive inflation to follow.

Dollar loses reserve status to yen & euro.

Ben Bernanke’s dollar crisis went into a wider mode yesterday as the greenback was shockingly upstaged by the euro and yen, both of which can lay claim to the world title as the currency favored by central banks as their reserve currency.

Over the last three months, banks put 63 percent of their new cash into euros and yen — not the greenbacks — a nearly complete reversal of the dollar’s onetime dominance for reserves, according to Barclays Capital. The dollar’s share of new cash in the central banks was down to 37 percent — compared with two-thirds a decade ago.

Currently, dollars account for about 62 percent of the currency reserve at central banks — the lowest on record, said the International Monetary Fund.

Bernanke could go down in economic history as the man who killed the greenback on the operating table.