Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 16, 2001, 13:31 |
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Quoting Padraic Brown <agricola@...>:
> As for the DM, I think it's one of the Yugoslavian countries
> that, essentially, uses it as their currency (kind of like
> Ecuador and the US$).
Actually, the official currency of Ecuador *is* the US dollar.
Last year, they changed over from a 1-to-1 rate peg to full
dollarization. (Argentina's been thinking about doing the same
thing for a couple years.) As for the former Yugoslavia, my
impression is that they just have useless official currency,
and so most of nonbartered trade occurs in German Marks (or
to a lesser extent, US dollars).
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