political past week, probably the most appropriate name American. If you start with the end , then the main event was the awarding of Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, which caused a storm of emotions, from surprise to anger, both within States and around the world. The newly winner himself was embarrassed by such attention, in fact, in fact, nominee Obama was only two weeks after his inauguration as president. This award of the American people, - commented receive awards Obama himself. This is a reward in advance - the general view of most commentators.

Of the real merits of the American president to promote peace throughout the world, probably, is called the decision to cease military operations in Iraq and the withdrawal of troops, to be completed by 2011 (now the number of American troops in this country is about 120 thousand), efforts to establish the negotiation process with North Korea and Iran, the decision to suspend the deployment of the third position area defense system in Europe, the intention to conclude an agreement with Russia to reduce strategic offensive arms to replace the START I Treaty, which expires this year. However, the main war Obama, by his own admission president - Afghanistan - last week became the subject of hot debate in Washington. President had to decide on the future development strategy of the military operation in this country: either to seriously enhance the contingent (as demanded immediate military chief of operations in Afghanistan), or it strengthened anti-terrorism focus of the operation, thus avoiding sending additional American units to Afghanistan. In the spring of Obama has decided to increase the number of U.S. troops in that country (now in Afghanistan are about 65 thousand American soldiers), and now the news agencies reported sending to the Middle East further 13 thousand soldiers. Solution in the spirit of the Nobel Peace laureate, as ironically noted by observers.

However, last week the Nobel Prize and discuss strategies for conducting military operations in Afghanistan were not the only reason attention to the U.S.. Earlier this week, British newspaper The Independent, discover the secret plans of some countries to abandon dollar payments for energy, seriously podogrela the already-existing discussion on the fate of the American currency has lost half a year more than 10%. The U.S. administration has come under fire for allegedly deliberately to the strategy of weak dollar. Within certain limits, the weak dollar could indeed pull exports, help the economy and reduce foreign debt, however, excessive kink might scare off lenders. For this reason, American officials during the 2 weeks have repeatedly stated that the Government's position - in maintaining a strong dollar and that all the necessary measures.

The weakening of the dollar raises serious concerns both in Europe and Asia. According to a study by Credit Suisse Group AG, the euro is overvalued by 16% (compared with the weighted fair price, taking into account the interest rate, the standard of living and other statistical data) and the Yen by 10%, which seriously threatens the process of recovery of these economies. Experts compiled by Bloomberg believe that in the short term should not expect a recovery of the dollar. Support the dollar is likely to have only increased the interest rate on such a possibility saying Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is October 8, but the implementation has not yet happened.

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