Could this be why gold has risen recently - someone noted that the dollar index does not look too good and they have started get into gold.
A point of interest:
I came across this article from The Telegraph about the banks reckless lending, quite shocking.
Concerns mount over reckless 2008-style lending in the $52 trillion shadow banking sector.
The hunt for higher yield has led to a surge in leveraged loans, collateralised loan obligations (CLOs), and other arcane high-risk instruments with echoes of the Lehman crisis.
While banks have been forced to raise their capital buffers and are deemed much safer than in 2008, the hazards have migrated to dark pockets of the vast non-bank sector. This now makes up 62pc of the $97 trillion assets of the financial industry.