somewhat your fault. Under the Bush administration, the USD has sunken to lows and is way more volatile than other currencies.

But it's more general than that. USA's international market institutions have been so dominant in the 80s and 90s that they started acting in arrogant way, missing to do critical reforms, where euro-countries have done them.

The more we are going forward, the more USA is loosing it's position as the main area for trading on the international level.