Someone has to tell this to the Washington Post. An article examining the reasons that oil hit a new record price (in nominal terms) failed to note the sharp fall of the dollar against other major currencies. This is not the whole story, but if the value of the dollar falls then the price of oil, as measured in dollars, rises. It's pretty simple.
--Dean Baker
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