U.S. Dollar, Usually World’s Safe Haven, Declining Despite Plenty of Global Turmoil

"When the world is in turmoil, investors have usually had one automatic response: Put money into dollars, viewed as the global safe harbor.But that’s not happening in this tumultuous year. Even with the Middle East in conflict, Japan in disarray after a series of d isasters and Europe facing a debt crisis, the dollar has been gradually falling in value against other major currencies."