Battle of the Reserve Currencies: Dollar vs…Yuan…?

I was sitting around the other day trying to decide what to do with all of my worthless dollars. I’m constantly bombarded with messages telling me how the buck will buckle, leaving my Franklins and Jacksons worthless. Guess I’ve got to do something with this worthless heap of cotton fiber.

Let’s see… should I build a bonfire, sending the notes up in smoke, or unceremoniously bag them up as trash? Better yet, I could relive my elementary school days in the 1970s and create one of those cool-at-the-moment-but-awful-in-retrospect decoupage art pieces. Now that’s an option!

Or how about this… instead of taking all the greenback haters at their word, I could take a peek at the real world, where the dollar has gained ground against the yen and the euro over the last couple of years. From