The economic downturn caused great speculations about failure of the US dollar and some conspiracy theories about introduction of a new North American currency named Amero. Everybody failed, to start with. There is not a single winner from the current events. As for the US dollar, to my mind, it not only will survive all these insinuations, but on the contrary there are sufficient prerequisites that it will strengthen its leading world positions. First of all, this is still the main world currency in which all major commodities are valued, and I see no other competitor that can substitute the buck globally. The depression will eventually come to an end (rather sooner than later), and the demand for raw materials and other main commodities will rapidly increase - the Earth population and its necessities are still growing in geometrical progression - that is why the US dollar does not have any reason to fall from the market. Secondly, the Euro currency, so far the only currency able to partially substitute the dollar, is in deep troubles itself and will put at serious test the whole unified decision making system and the regulatory capacity of the European Union. The European economy is in bad shape, drastically reducing the investment attractiveness of its traditional industries - as a consequence, we may expect with a very high degree of probability that Euro will fall towards the US dollar very soon (which will become beneficial for European exporters). Thirdly, ...