What do you think of the Euro? Has it made everything more expensive?
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NO!!! people complaun about the different currencies but inteligence just over idiot can keep it straught. i miss the different looks & textures. i still, after all this time, hear complaints from the richer countries that the euro has thrashed their wealth. the poorer countries complain about the prices of goods. i hope uk never adopts it, it would be disasterous for the britton. travel in eu isnt better but its not worse unless i intend on buying low & selling high.
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we in america dumped it.\nthe euros still use nano.\nMIKE
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Good old pounds sterling although the debate continues as to whether we should go to the Euro.
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France and all but 4 of the Western European countries uses the euro.  Two summers ago an American dollar and a quarter would equal one euro.  It has changed.  It is currently 1.19 but it changes constantly. Hope this helps.Try following web site.
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poland does not face as many economic challenges as the wealthier countries such as Britain and Germany, because their currency is not worth a great deal, so it would not have to be devalued to meet the requirements of the Euro. They also gain from the fact that they are able to go and live anywhere else in Europe much more easily now and get a well paid job wich they cannot in Poland. The only challenge that they will face, is that the Euro will push up the price of most of their day to day shopping goods. They will also receive enormous subsidies from the rest of Europe.
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- The Euro: no money exchange costs when traveling or trading\n- Common trading market\n- No internal frontiers\n- A higher judicial autority independent of your own gouvernement\n- Some checks on the spending behaviour of your own gouvernment\n- Low inflation\n\nThat makes six reasons: pick your favourite three!
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I don't know who told you that, but typically, what you could buy last year cost less than what you would pay for it today. This means that last years dollars were actually worth more. That's what inflation is all about.
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That's not exactly true.  Europe has adopted the Euro which is used by all European countries, however Great Britain which is part of the European union has elected to stay with the pound, for now.
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u can thank mr. Bush for that and the Giant trade deficit in america. many countries are exchanging they're reserves from dollars to euros so you can expect an even higher devaluation.
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First, go here:\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/currency\n\nOne US dollar is worth .7783 Euro. One Euro is worth 1.2848 dollars. To go from one direction to the other, just divide into 1. So to see how many dollars a Euro gets: 1/(.7783)=1.2848. And in the opposite direction: 1/(1.2848)= .783 Euro.\n\nFrom these currency values, you can see that a US dollar is worth less than one Euro, for otherwise they would trade 1-to-1.  Because currencies like the dollar and the Euro are not priced by the government (well they are in some ways, but typically currencies freely "float" on the free market) these values will reflect the demand for Euros versus dollars. (In some cases the central bank will intervene to change the price of the currency). \n\nThe Euro, since its inception in 1999, has tended to be "stronger" than the dollar. (i.e. you get more dollars per each Euro).  That strength might be cause by both real and perceived factors. Real factors might have to do with balance of payments (trade between Europe and the US) and perceived factors might have to do with people's perceptions about which currency is stronger in the long term.\n\nBecause our US dollar gets us fewer Euros, everything we buy from countries that use the Euro will be more expensive. But the opposite is true for Europeans: they can now buy more with a stronger Euro if they buy imported US goods.  This sets in motion some interesting politics: Exporters like a weaker dollar because Europeans will buy more US goods with their stronger Euro. But this also makes imported European goods more expensive, and that is a disadvantage for importers.\n\nIf I use my dollar and exchange it for Euros so that I buy European equities (stocks), and my dollar drops in value, I also get an economic benefit here. When I sell my European Euro-denominated stocks and convert from Euros to dollars, I will get back more dollars. \n\nMany people make money by following trends in currency prices, although to make money you have to buy and sell very large quantities of currencies- something that most people do not want to risk. Through something call price arbitrage, currencies will generally converge on one price regardless of how many are bought and sold. To illustrate an example:\n\nSay there are 3 currencies, A, B, C. A might be the dollar, B might be the Euro, and C might be the Yen.  If I use A and convert to B, and then take B and convert to C, and finally take C and convert back to A, I should get back approximately the same starting value of A I had.  The same goes regardless of which currency you start out with.  However, sometimes there are minute differences, meaning that when you get back to "A" you might end up having more (or less) than you started out with. The positive difference would be a small profit for you just for converting between currencies.\n\nThere are risks and costs, however. One cost is that every currency transaction has a price. Those who trade in currencies are in business to make money, and they will usually tax you for their services. If you have ever been to a foreign country you will notice that to buy a foreign currency you will have to pay more dollars than you get back when you want to convert the foreign currency into dollars. The difference is the profit that the currency trader makes. A second risk is that currency fluctuations happen fast and in order to make any profit you have to be very quick. You can lose a lot of money by day trading currencies.\n\nIn any case, that should give you a little background on currency exchange.\n\nPS: for 995 Euros: \n\n(995)x(1.2848)= $1,278 dollars.
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well here in ireland it seems to be that inflation is bringin prices up. that and prices were brought up by stealth by business men during the changeover. \n\nfor instnace there is a doughnut shop on oconnel street in dublin and is usta be 1pound for 4 doughnuts.\n\nafter the change over it was 1.50 euro for 4. and the change rate was 1poiund = 1.27 euro. it is now 3 doughnuts for 1.50 euro.\n\nso yes ppl are gettin ripped off and they are not doing anything about it...
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I posed a similar Question and have similarly gotten only one unenlightened answer so far. Common people, I know there has to be more of us thinking about this, even the media is silent. This is a serious Question!!\n\nThere seems to be so much in the news that makes sense in light of the Iran card. This Port deal that Bush is pushing through seems a little strange, until one realizes geographically where UAE is located, the Straits of Hormuz, the   shipping lane in and out of the Persian Gulf. Nice place to have an buddy in case of a war with Iran.\n\nAnother notable development is that Norway has choose to trade oil Euros, and we don't even have to ask Syria and Venezuela. If the fickle Europeans desire to crush the US, they can in the blink of an eye by jumping off the dollar and onto the Euro. Remember the unfriendly gang of three (Russia, German and France) not long ago tried to show their collective anti American mussel.\n\nIf all oil trades in Euros it will mean the free fall of the dollar. Do all of these countries resent the US enough to see the one stabilizing military and economic power go down in flames? Not all, but some do. Will these nations mind seeing their dollar denominated investments wither, I think not.That said, I think the one thing that may foil the Iranian attempt to sink the dollar, is if well place conventional and nuclear bombs don't preempt the Euro switch in the first place, is the complete lack of a proven, regulated and stable market place. Historical financial data is all calculated in dollars as well and the dollar and Euro do not seem to have a long enough history to translate any predictability into a Euro denominated Market.\n\nAs much as the world may dislike the USA's strong arm tactics, we seem to be the only ones that are not afraid to  go and tackle world problems. i.e. Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Genocide in Europe (Balkans). And if Americans want to continue to enjoy prosperity (hawks and doves both seem to be fond of money) their government will have to manipulate the balance of power to the USA's favor using all means necessary. The following links are not from main stream media outlets so they can be a little extreme in their views, but that is all we have since no one else is covering this here... now that I think of it an Israeli news source would probably be covering this, since the Iranian President  seems to think "whipping Israel off the face of the earth" is  a noble pursuit for his nation. ~God have mercy on us all!
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I think through time, moving to the Euro is a possibility. It may be an ego blow to red blooded Americans, but not particularly damaging to the economy.\n\nWith regard to invade, I not sure that is a practical necessity, more likely they will attempt to destroy facilities perceived to be active in nuclear work, while applying external pressure through sanctions.
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The euro is the currency of twelve European Union countries, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Arctic Circle (namely Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Finland).\n\nEuro banknotes and coins have been in circulation since 1 January 2002 and are now a part of daily life for over 300 million Europeans living in the euro area.
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netherlands uses the euro\nit is worth more than us$
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It was the Lira but now they use the Euro. You can check the current rate of exchange on a yahoo or google search under currency converter.
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Trick Q?  Does Italy use the Euro or Lira?\n\nhttp://www.xe.com/ucc/