The continued fall of the U.S. dollar comes after a 12-month period ending in December when consumer prices rose 2.7% (7). Food prices, in particular, outpaced that average, rising 3.1%.“Markets are reopening the question of whether the US is asking investors to accept a lower standard of stability, and therefore demanding a higher price for bearing U.S. risk.”“When the person who could jawbone to defend the currency sounds unconcerned, the perceived backstop under the dollar gets thinner,” Doyle said in a ...