Max is definitely correct about the USD's rather sudden loss of the safe haven bid during the recent revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Dollar Getting Slammed, Gold and Silver Surging Toward New Highs

Max Keiser

February 28, 2011

The Dollar is not attracting ‘flight to safety’ support and this is surprising a lot of money professionals. I just heard Hillary’s speech in front of the UN and felt as if she was still reading from the old playbook written by Saudi Arabia and Israel decades ago. She sounded out of key as do all of the knee-jerk analysts ‘surprised’ by the dollar’s weakness. Silver is to the dollar – what the revolutions in N. Africa are to the dictators there. We are witnessing huge shifts in political and economic trends. The old dictators, including the US dollar – as world reserve currency – are being chased out of town by a global insurrection against the banker occupation.