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 Joined: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:08 pmPosts: 1833Location: Glasgow, Scotland.
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Come on, US economy, collapse further, ideally in a way that doesn't impact on ours, or indeed even benefits it.
It's important to prioritise.
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| Joined: Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:42 pmPosts: 2674Location: Gainesville |
i keep a cayman island dollar in my wallet at all times
just waiting for our economy to crash so I can cash it in and retire |
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| Joined: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:08 pmPosts: 1833Location: Glasgow, Scotland.
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When I was in Macedonia, I bought a 500,000,000,000 (yeah, 500 billion) denar note from the old Yugoslavia for €3. Mine friend bought one too, between us we were a trillionaire. For a country that no longer exists, admittedly, but still. That must've been quite some inflation they had going on, because in Serbia and Macedonia the denar now is roughly 60 to the €.
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 Joined: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:09 amPosts: 453Location: Hull, England
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Kenny wrote: When I was in Macedonia, I bought a 500,000,000,000 (yeah, 500 billion) denar note from the old Yugoslavia for €3. Mine friend bought one too, between us we were a trillionaire. For a country that no longer exists, admittedly, but still. That must've been quite some inflation they had going on, because in Serbia and Macedonia the denar now is roughly 60 to the €.
So say you were a millionaire/billionaire here, and you had gone to old Yugoslavia with your vast wealth, What the hell would that make you over there? |
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 Joined: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:25 pmPosts: 74Location: Leeds, U.K
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kelly wrote: its 1.83 today on xe.com. does that mean its gone up? i think it has.
yup its been going it for the last couple of weeks $1.86 to £1 currently.. 
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| Joined: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:08 pmPosts: 1833Location: Glasgow, Scotland.
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leeroybrownhu9 wrote: Kenny wrote: When I was in Macedonia, I bought a 500,000,000,000 (yeah, 500 billion) denar note from the old Yugoslavia for €3. Mine friend bought one too, between us we were a trillionaire. For a country that no longer exists, admittedly, but still. That must've been quite some inflation they had going on, because in Serbia and Macedonia the denar now is roughly 60 to the €. So say you were a millionaire/billionaire here, and you had gone to old Yugoslavia with your vast wealth, What the hell would that make you over there? I have no idea what that magnitude of number is called. I don't even know what comes after trillionaire. Edit: a quadrillionaire, apparently! That's a thousand million million.
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| Joined: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:28 amPosts: 144Location: Cambridge, UK |
TimmyUK wrote: saRah! wrote: I've been keeping an eye on xe.com and the rate has crept up from 1.78 to 1.83 over last few days, I have some dollars already but gonna hold out for a bit I think to get some more. Will you actually get those rates exchanging cash though? I've used M&S for my last few US trips as their tourist rates are pretty competitive. Looks like it's dropped ever so slightly since yesterday. Live rates here: http://www6.marksandspencer.com/pages/d ... Product=TM I think I got $1.74 from M&S about a month ago. It'll be around 5-10c less than whatever xe.com tells you. |
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| Joined: Tue May 29, 2007 4:18 pmPosts: 87Location: scotland |
Matt Power wrote: TimmyUK wrote: saRah! wrote: I've been keeping an eye on xe.com and the rate has crept up from 1.78 to 1.83 over last few days, I have some dollars already but gonna hold out for a bit I think to get some more. Will you actually get those rates exchanging cash though? I've used M&S for my last few US trips as their tourist rates are pretty competitive. Looks like it's dropped ever so slightly since yesterday. Live rates here: http://www6.marksandspencer.com/pages/d ... Product=TM I think I got $1.74 from M&S about a month ago. It'll be around 5-10c less than whatever xe.com tells you. Yeah when I was in there yesterday and it was 1.78. |
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 Joined: Mon May 21, 2007 6:57 pmPosts: 1208Location: Kingston, UK
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1.79 today so that means I'm 18 bucks worse off for not hanging on another week. Arse!
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| Joined: Tue May 29, 2007 4:18 pmPosts: 87Location: scotland |
yeh, I'm quite pleased that I've been too skint to order any more cash or else I'd have done it by now. I hope it continues to weaken or at least holds til pay day!Our internal flight costs have gone down too ,hooray for holding off!
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| Joined: Mon May 21, 2007 6:57 pmPosts: 1208Location: Kingston, UK
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saRah! wrote: yeh, I'm quite pleased that I've been too skint to order any more cash or else I'd have done it by now. I hope it continues to weaken or at least holds til pay day!Our internal flight costs have gone down too ,hooray for holding off!
How much are flights now? |
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| Joined: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:28 amPosts: 144Location: Cambridge, UK |
I need to change some money up really this weekend cause it's my last payday tomorrow until Fest comes around.
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| Joined: Tue May 29, 2007 4:18 pmPosts: 87Location: scotland |
TimmyUK wrote: saRah! wrote: yeh, I'm quite pleased that I've been too skint to order any more cash or else I'd have done it by now. I hope it continues to weaken or at least holds til pay day!Our internal flight costs have gone down too ,hooray for holding off! How much are flights now? well we're looking at nyc-gnv-was-nyc and seen that for £203 which isn't toooo bad |
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| Joined: Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:02 amPosts: 28 |
Ah stop your complaining. coming from australia is a hell of a lot more expensive...
so tell me...on average, in US bling blings how much would the average alcoholic cider drinking cheap skate fun time seeking stuff buying food muching piggy spend at said Fest? and maybe in general for 2 weeks of no brainer USA debauchery..... I just want to get an average idea of how much more i need to put aside... sucks not having enough.... |
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 Joined: Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:46 amPosts: 1052Location: Kreuzberg 36 / Berlin
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the dow jones collapses and the dollar is going down? what the hell... shouldn't it be the other way around???? damn
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