RM>GP~Well, as I recall, our dollar has long stacked up better against the
RM>  ~Japanese yen than has the American dollar!

RM>???.. Isn't ALL world currency compared to the US Dollar when quoted
RM>and you just convert from there ?  There has to be a universal standard
RM>and, so far, the US dollar has been it. If that wasn't the case we
RM>could get Incredibly wealthy buying Canadian dollars in the USA and
RM>selling them in Japan..    B)

Some of us are old enough to remember when the British pound was
the international monetary standard of worthiness.

When the British dissipated themselves fighting Fascism, the
pound was replaced by the American dollar.

(Considering todays history-lesson-in-process, one might want to
hang on to their loonies for when it soon becomes the international
standard 8-?

Ciao, Ack.

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