Not really, the US Dollar has spiked up: http://quotes.ino.com/charting/index...=&a=&w=&v=dmax
The Euro economic zone has very little inflation (bordering deflation). Euro zone prices and buying power within the Euro zone of domestically produced products are about the same. Euro zone imports will be effected and Euro zone import costs will rise, probably returning inflation to the 2% levels that the ECB would prefer.
So, it isn't a crash but a correction -- the Euro being worth less than a dollar would be a crash.
I really doubt this dollar strength is gonna stay for long. It is bad for US exports but since the US doesn't export much, that's no major issue.
The main issue is that the US has an inflation target of above 2% and currently has a strong leaning toward deflation. So hence if you have a strong dollar, you have weaker inflation so the FED will be aiming to weaking the dollar and get inflation higher. They must secretly know about QE4 (its already been hinted at) so I guess it must be coming within a year or so but even if it doesn't, we will not see higher rates for many years.
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