Economic warfare and "blowback" to US foreign policy.

This goes to show just how much foreign policy, both wars and economic sanctions against others, can effect the domestic U.S. economy.
Will Americans press the government to roll back its foreign aggression in pretense of a "war on terrorism", threats against Iran...etc?

It is all by design, it will not stop, my advice is to start investing in the Amero or at least check its value on the exchange, the Currency of the North American Union, which is comprised of the USA, Canada, and Mexico.
Connected by the NAFTA highway.
Bush sold out the USA a few years back.

Worrying?

Gold hits record high on 'plan' to ditch dollar

UN calls for new reserve currency

Prediction: A New Global Currency (like Euro in Europe, which replaces German marks and French francs, etc.) will be invented to replace the Dollar, too much associated with America.

Will a Basket of Currencies Replace the Dollar?

The G-20 Pittsburgh meeting included a discussion of using Special Drawing Rights and a basket of currencies to replace the dollar, with all currencies being adjusted and redistributed, with dollar taking a 50% devaluation to reflect debt America is carrying

Gerald Celente of Trends Research explains the Dollar's problem in video here.