2020, the election campaigns have begun

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This is as good a place as any to put this, and (considering it has information that might possibly affect how some people vote in less than a hundred days from now) a better place than many.

Even the loonie is rising against the U.S. dollar as the Fed faces currency threat

No one will be surprised if Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell uses part of his news conference on Wednesday to scoff at the idea of the U.S. dollar losing its place as the world reserve currency.

But even as he scoffs, the comments this week by strategists at global finance giant Goldman Sachs that "real concerns around the longevity of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency have started to emerge," will certainly be in the minds of everyone listening to the Fed's latest plans.

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