This is just further proof, if any be needed, that the financial world has few if any moorings in anything even vaguely resembling to reality.
Bloomberg: The dollar is rising based on speculation the bailout will fail, thus making the dollar a safe haven.
Thus, in the eyes of the greedhead morons who created the crisis in the first place, failure now would be good because the dollar will become stronger (and they can profit from it, of course.)
“A capitalist will sell rope on Monday for a revolution on Tuesday in which he gets hung on Wednesday.”