Factors like food, energy and the continuing aftershocks of the credit crunch have made the steadily ongoing devaluation of currencies a global problem. It's not just the dollarette, even though we got a head start, given the precipitous drop in the exchange rate with others like the Euro and Canadian dollar. But they are all losing buying power every day.
http://money.uk.msn.com/investing/articles/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=8894833UK '15% worse off than in 2003'