For the moment, however, the strong dollar encourages foreigners to invest their savings in the United States, in effect lending to the ever more indebted Americans.
The strong dollar encouraged foreign tourists to spend less in the company's domestic stores, where sales usually account for nearly half of its business.Currency woes, coupled with its products falling out of favour among Japanese consumers, meant that the firm's executives were forced to predict a modest 2015.
A constant flow of marketing dollars encouraging us -- and our kids -- to overconsume the very foods that propel us toward obesity and early-onset chronic disease.
The weak American dollar is encouraging thousands of foreigners to buy what seem like bargain apartments.
The British Bankers Associationn says the scale of the fines, some worth billions of dollars, is encouraging banks to end long-standing relationships, which it acknowledges is causing "problems" for various groups, including people in the UK trying to send money to relatives in countries such as Somalia, and charities attempting to get aid money into war-torn regions.
"The beverage industry spends billions of dollars annually encouraging people to drink sugar-sweetened beverages," Madsen said.
Across the Atlantic, the weaker dollar has encouraged a European travel boom to the United States.
And there is at least some risk that an aggressive campaign to devalue the dollar could encourage foreign investors to move out of Treasuries, raising interest rates.
Besides strong natural gas prices, Mr. Morgan said that the sharp appreciation in the Canadian dollar had encouraged EnCana "to apply capital into the U.S. market".
Economists say higher food costs are being caused by rising energy prices, a weak dollar that encourages exports of American crops and food products, and soaring prices for farm commodities like milk, corn and wheat.
Mr. Goldstein said the slower growth would be an "unintended negative consequence" of the Federal Reserve's recent quantitative easing, which resulted in a lowering in the value of the dollar and encouraged investors to put money into hard assets like oil.
