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To: seacapn

Got a wheelbarrow to haul your Georges around for a loaf of bread? Most likely another addition of 1.5% kickup in inflation for the year versus foreign currencies.


20 posted on 01/22/2008 5:36:12 AM PST by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: RSmithOpt
Got a wheelbarrow to haul your Georges around for a loaf of bread?

LOL, that reminds me of a true story. I was visiting friends in Belarus about 10 years ago, and I wanted to shop for some presents to bring back. Officially, you are only supposed to shop with rubles, not dollars. So, I asked my friend to get me some rubles.

About $100 worth, I told her. I gave her 5 crisp $20 bills, and she returned with a large trash bag filled with money. It must have looked like a giant dope deal.

I found that I could only carry about $20 worth of rubles without having a bag. Later, the country restructured its currency 100:1 so it is more manageable.

66 posted on 01/22/2008 6:03:37 AM PST by Sender (Feel like, I feel like a poke chop san'wich)
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Another thing I found remarkable on my trip was that the exchange rate varies greatly according to who you do business with.

I was going to get my rubles at a bank, but my friend said, "No, don't go to a bank. They will only give you X rubles for a dollar (the official exchange rate). Money changers will give you much more."

I was confused by their whole economy. Here's hoping we don't head in that direction!

70 posted on 01/22/2008 6:06:53 AM PST by Sender (Feel like, I feel like a poke chop san'wich)
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To: RSmithOpt

“Got a wheelbarrow to haul your Georges around for a loaf of bread?”

That’s why they came up with credit cards...lol! Only kidding.


73 posted on 01/22/2008 6:09:26 AM PST by mr_hammer (...checking the breeze and barking at things that go bump in the night.)
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To: RSmithOpt
"Got a wheelbarrow to haul your Georges around for a loaf of bread?"

PUH-ease, that kind of hyperbole on a supposedly conservative website is getting really tired. You think ONE AND A HALF PERCENT INFLATION is bad?? This is NOTHING, it's STILL a pretty damned robust economy. You must not have been around for the CARTER era. I was. That was a full blown depression, Carter coined lovely words to make it more palatable like "recession", "stagflation" and my favorite, the "misery index". And WE didn't need "a wheelbarrow of Gorges" to buy a flippinf loaf of bread.

95 posted on 01/22/2008 6:30:10 AM PST by cake_crumb (Being a preacher DOES NOT exempt you from being a liar and a crook)
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