Withdrawing to my bank account, it's telling me the Exchange Rate: 1 US Dollars = 1.00000 Australian Dollars
Yeah, the US dollar is certainly weakening. I supposed that with the foreign exchange fees and the bank exchange rates, what you seeing is possible.
this is happening because americans mentality, which trends to become global mentality, buying houses and other un-useful things, trough loans and mortgages, to pay 2-3 times the value for a house that in 5 years will worth only half of it's initial value because of new technology comes around, and new things to build houses and other things comes cheaper and are much better.