We showed this chart to someone and they remarked, "Oh good, the dollar is stabilizing."
This is a year over year chart of the change in the dollar, expressed in percents.
What this chart shows is that the US dollar is locked into a nice, steady annual decline of about 12%.
That's 12% annual decline. That means you need to MAKE a 12% return on those dollar assets just to break even.
It should also give you some idea of where the rate of monetary inflation is, and its not at the headline core rate put out by the propeller heads at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception