004: Dollar vs. Euro

The United States has been in an economic crunch the past year, and one of the best examples of this is how poorly its currency has held its value.

It seems that everything from the euro to the pound to the Canadian dollar to the peso is gaining on the greenback, and this trend is evident in our chart:



Of course, much of the Euro's traffic is the result of folks simply searching for the term itself and not the currency, but nearly any Google Trends chart is skewed by this sort of thing to some degree.