The US dollar is struggling, and even with the recent surge against the euro remains in a trading tunnel that is destined to continue on a slide. My perspectives on how Greenspan and the housing market may take your tax dollars.

Investor’s Daily Edge editors Rick Pendergraft and Andrew Gordon, speaking with Today’s Financial News editor J. Christoph Amberger, recommend four investments to make now to leverage volatility in the crude oil and currency markets.

Have the markets already gone through their inflationary melt up phase? Are they now giving way to debt deflation, in which cash is hoarded and the price of all assets (tangible and otherwise) falls? Well…no.

So far this year, 25 airlines have collapsed. Those that have survived have taken on hefty losses. The seven biggest US carriers had combined 2Q losses of almost $6 billion.

The dollar has taken a break from its recent climb. It fell 0.5% against the euro this morning in European trade. Nevertheless, dollar strength is big news these days. Could the US downturn be bottoming just as Europe falls into recession?

Oil prices sank more than $3 a barrel Friday, dropping to the lowest level since early May after the dollar muscled higher and OPEC predicted world demand for energy will keep falling

Currency expert Jack Crooks says the key to understanding current dollar strength is the failure of other nations to decouple from the ailing US economy…

In this column we’re going to explore income alternatives available from short-term investments in foreign currencies, a strategy that capitalizes on both the general sogginess of the dollar and the higher yields available from some markets abroad.

There are two serious risks to your US retirement plan, says Erika Nolan in The Sovereign Society. First, the average American is not saving enough for retirement, especially with inflation on the rise. Second, pension schemes are coming under increasing scrutiny from lawyers and IRS auditors.

The recent buyout of Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (ANR) by Cleveland Cliffs Inc. (CLF) could ignite more than $50 billion worth of M&A deals in the U.S. coal industry over the next few years as Mainland China rushes to solve a major energy shortfall.

Currency ETFs were created in 2006. Since then, more and more investors have been jumping on the bandwagon. But did you know you could invest in them for less than $100?

We all know the catch-22 situation facing the Federal Reserve… stagflation . A stagnant economy coupled with rocketing inflation. At the rate oil is increasing, we can expect our daily products to double in prices within the next 2-3 years.

The machinations of the US Federal Reserve are uppermost in the minds of investors — and the media. The Fed is in a jam. On the one side slowing growth and the specter of the credit crisis. Rising inflation on the other.

Finance ministers at the G8 summit in Osaka, Japan, have warned that stagflation — recession coupled with high inflation – is now a more serious challenge to global growth than the credit crisis.

William Patalon III in Money Morning sees a universal theme emerging: Inflation, Inflation, Inflation…

For most Americans, it’s hard to understand why the dollar is falling. With this post, the goal is to give you the best answers available on both questions — How far has the dollar fallen? And why is it falling? We also want to look ahead as well.