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Re:The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar by blibble on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:06PM (#32060336)
fortunately Britain doesn't use the euro
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Re:The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar by andymockli on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:15PM (#32060460)
Related: https://www.x-rates.com/calculator/?from=EUR&to=GBP&amount=1
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Re:The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar by blibble on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:23PM (#32060568)
not really related when that's almost 20%, is it?

turns out retaining the ability to set your own interest rates is important

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Re:The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar by asdadsdad on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:16PM (#32060464)
yeah, they use the pound, which is also almost 1 = 1 with the Euro =)
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Re:The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar by blibble on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:23PM (#32060558)
so by almost you mean almost 20% off?

euro-nationalists kept saying after brexit the euro would hit parity

(but they expected it to be against the pound, not the dollar)

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Re:The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar by asdadsdad on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:33PM (#32060695)
lol, ok, fair. I guess people would expect the pound to lose power due to Brexit in the long term
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Re:The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar by asdadsdad on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:34PM (#32060704)
inflation is at 9% tho
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