[pp.int.general] A Christmas present!

[Nicolas Sahlqvist]

Sweden have not switched to Euro, we seem to prefer our "krona" currency. It
is marketed by the movment negative to EU as a way to stay strong against
currency speculation, but they tried to defend the currency in 1992 and it
resulted in a 500% interest on the government bank (Riksbanken) that took
years to repay:

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1025624.html


- Nicolas


On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Jay Emerson <jemers2 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/07/report-wikileaks-cab.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29&utm_content=FaceBook
>
> In Texas, DynCorp pimped little boys to stoned Afghan cops.
>
> Ha! I see your Sweden news and raise you an American News story worth more
> than your Euro :-P
>
> [insert Dollar joke retort here]
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Tim Dobson <lists at tdobson.net> wrote:
>
>> On 09/12/10 00:09, Nicolas Sahlqvist wrote:
>> > It does not make sense unless you seen the Swedish news lately,
>>
>> thanks for the context. :)
>>
>> That now makes sense and is also very interesting...
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