Too frikken right - about 3/4 of my clients are from the US and thus they pay me in $ for scripts. That together with the 5% ccard processing fee for payements means I end up with peanuts for hard work.

While it's fine for the big projects, I can hardly be bothered to fill gaps with $100 scripts anymore.

I feel in the long term, the USD will go back up to where it was or better - but in the short term (1-2 years) until the Iraq war is settled down a bit - it will continue to drop...

I WISH the USD would go WAY up and our Canadian dollar would drop again - man that was sweet in 2001 - 2003 or so :)

1.5 million 5 years ago got you a fucking mansion in the south

you missed out :1orglaugh

Yeah, it still works fine for me

Damn Kristain, below is a typical $375-$425,000 new home in my area.

http://www.imagefilez.com/out.php/i2...itchfield2.JPG

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Thats a sweet house! There are many things I like abou the UK but the cost of living has gotten even worse over the last couple years.

And guess what?

Funny this post should come up because

I'm fucking emigrating on nov 15!!! :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Gozo here we come!

Traitor!!... You are either with us, or you support terrorism...

:1orglaugh :helpme

hope it improves :(

just an appropriate bump ..... from 2004 & oct. 2006

Fiddy US Dollars

Of course in a few months time the USD will be back to normal. The economic flows just have to adjust with the new set of legalities involved, but once they get used to it.. then things would be way ok again.

Soon for one euro you will get 5 dollars.

you should run for office ....

You said a lot, but it means nothing :1orglaugh

:1orglaugh good call

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:thumbsup

Someone needs to tell China and other creditor nations that is just a matter of "economic flows" and "a new set of legalities" involved :winkwink:

No chance.

As long as US do not get rid of Bush.

it will creep back up ..

There is no chance that it will creep back up.

The US dollar needs to par with canada and that would make the peso 10-1 .

This will allow for bush's new AMERO.

It will go up no worries

CDN $ up 1.36 cents today to .986 ouch.

Feds are cutting rates to save mortgages, but in turn furthering weakening their already sinking dollar.

who knows, anything could happen

Yes it will. it will be a slow rise at first, and then it will take a jump.

Yep it's sick bank rates put it on par today. :(

NO, it just keeps dropping against the Thai baht, that's for sure! Good thing I bought a place in Bangkok. 30% appreciation in one year just based on the currency!

I bet they did mainly to save a wall street, not average Joe. Even Greenspan told, that is fundamentaly wrong to lower interest rates now as it will bring inflation -> recession.

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy will head into a ``serious'' recession and the dollar will ``collapse'' if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke reduces interest rates, investor Jim Rogers said.

``Every time the Fed turns around to save its friends on Wall Street, it makes the situation worse,'' Rogers said in an interview from Shanghai. ``If Bernanke starts running those printing presses even faster than he's doing already, yes we are going to have a serious recession. The dollar's going to collapse, the bond market's going to collapse. There's going to be a lot of problems in the U.S.'' "


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...7&sid=aYBOOiT5

gold :)

Normal? It's been diving for the last 6 years... what exactly is normal?

i agree.