Fed Chairman Bernanke’s comments yesterday on the inflationary impact of the weaker dollar have been widely interpreted as signalling a turning point in the central bank's attitude to the currency. We didn’t read his speech in quite this way at the time, and re-reading it this morning we still don’t. Nonetheless, the support that this interpretation has given to the dollar is another potential prick in the commodity bubble.
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