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how to measure how the australian dollar is faring independent of the us dollar
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to make it simple, just use gold as the main benchmark. gold price never moves, fiat currencies move around the price of gold.  so, when comparing us$ and australian dollars to the gold, you know which currency is moving up and which down.
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