There is a fare chance that it will continue to fall…
Returning to the mean is relative… dollars are, like anything else affected by supply and demand. If the supply of dollars were consistent, then yes, we would return to the mean. However, that is far from the truth… the fed prints billions of new dollars, continuously adding to supply.
The amount of new dollars used to be a known number. The fed used to (until march of 2006) publish something called the M3. This number told investors the total number of dollars in circulation. For the past few years, this number has been growing at almost an exponential rate.
The reason the fed gave for discontinuing the M3 is totally bogus. They said that it cost to much money to compile this stats (funny statement coming for the people that print money out of thin air).
