The lofty all-time record figures of the Aussie dollar (AUD), got a taste of the other side of the coin last night, and has backed off those lofty figures of the past few days. I don’t think profit taking was the key here; instead, it was probably the news that Japan had raised the severity [...] Global Growth Questioned as Japan Raises Nuclear Severity originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning . The Daily Reckoning recently featured articles on stagflation , best libertarian books , and QE2 .