"We're doing 20% worse than Europe" While your core conclusion may not change, you shouldn't do that; strength of currency is not a straight number you can use

"We're doing 20% worse than Europe" While your core conclusion may not change, you shouldn't do that; strength of currency is not a straight number you can use to measure the strength of an economy like that. GDP change would be better and I still think that one stinks too. Despite the use of the word "strong" it is definitely not the case that economies want their currencies to just be as "strong" as possible as you might think from the connotations of the word "strong".