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    • February 20, 2004 at 12:03 am #10820
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      hey fellas,the aussie doller is now worth 80c USD. So this is the time to buy stuff from america!

    • February 20, 2004 at 12:05 am #36785
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      hell yeah, bali uses usd for anything thats tech.

      toyeast here i come!!!

    • February 20, 2004 at 12:52 am #36784
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      Bali like most indonesian provinces and second and third world countries hold their savings in cash USD. It makes me if the kids at the airport in Dili, East Timor are begging for $1 USD or AUS.
      Which reminds me, most things come from China, so it is Dollar to Yuan exchange rate. There is a lot of pressure on China to raise it’s exchange rate. The government pegs the rate against the US$.
      It keeps the rate low to attact manufacturing and employment.
      It means that there is plenty of work for cheap chinese labour, and because their exchange rate is poor, so are the people.
      When and if the rate is let float, china will be extreemly rich and the chinese will have massive buying power.
      They will have all the factories, all the jobs and all the money 🙂
      Long term future for china is looking good.

      Edited by – trash on 19 February 2004 20:06:07

    • February 20, 2004 at 12:57 am #36779
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      It makes things nice and easy now, all you do is get your final price in US$ and multiply by (only) 1.25 to get Aussie $$
      So US$10 becomes AU$12.50
      How am I supposed to stop buying stuff if this keeps going on.
      🙂 uA

    • February 20, 2004 at 2:52 am #39822
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      and toyeast just replenished their perfection stock!!!

    • February 20, 2004 at 7:09 pm #36740
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      just when my finances pull themselves together again, THIS happens! Great stuff, another new order…

    • February 20, 2004 at 7:43 pm #36741
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      Great!!!! Ah……damn more money to fork out.

      I hope the dollar continues to rise, i can remember it was almost half what it is now a while back

    • February 20, 2004 at 8:21 pm #36728
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      AUD was US47c not too long ago…. but waaay back, probably before some of you kiddies were born, AUD was worth *over* US$1 ahh.

      USSR rouble worth “something” back then, too! 🙂

    • February 23, 2004 at 4:20 pm #36668
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      That would be nice, cheap stuff.

    • February 23, 2004 at 4:46 pm #36669
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      Yeah, once upon a time Australia had title of “best living conditions” in the whole world… back in the 70s.

      Since then, I think local industry has been lulled into some false sense of security and there’s been no new advances – no attempt to shore up Oz’s future.

      Three decades ago it was a case of living off the sheep’s back, cropping or digging up stuff and selling it o/s.

      Today… heck, what else does Oz export?

    • February 23, 2004 at 4:47 pm #36670
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      mosfet mods….

    • February 23, 2004 at 6:49 pm #36676
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      Whoops… not so High anymore. Dropped 3c over the weekend! 🙁

    • February 24, 2004 at 6:56 pm #36640
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      yeh i noticed

    • February 24, 2004 at 7:02 pm #36641
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      Must be just on the back of news that Arnie’s gunna become President. (yeah, they’re talking about changing the constitution to allow ppl to who aren’t US-born to run for Pres)

      :D:evil:

    • February 24, 2004 at 7:45 pm #36633
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      was only a matter of time hey!:dead: at least his grasp of the english language is better than w’s!!:8ball:

    • February 24, 2004 at 11:32 pm #39818
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      yeah they said the doller would drop be regain in the week

    • February 25, 2004 at 4:13 am #36612
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      Haha, economists wouldn’t have a clue what’s going on – 50% say its going Up, 50% say its going down and the rest are Undecided. 🙂

      An economist is just an opinionated fella that thinks he knows what’s going on, like when you’re watching the animals in the zoo and trying to predict what they’ll do next.

      Ever met a rich economist? :blush: Nah, me neither – and I’m in that trade. If only an economist could get his guess right any more than 30% of the time (yes 30%, no joke), he would be a rich man.

    • February 25, 2004 at 4:20 am #36613
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      lol well compiled

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