Erma Bombeck Quotes

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

... a baseless currency varying every fifty miles and fluctuating everywhere.

It does not mean of course that the pound here in Britain in your pocket has been devalued .

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries.

Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.

The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.

When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency. So the purchasing power that we lose, somebody else gets.

We keep our reserves both in dollars and in Euros mostly.

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.

The world is constantly in a race to the top, in terms of there's a limited amount of capital and you've got to figure where it's going. And if your currency is weakening, that means you're paying a load.

I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency.

Once you change your currency to another dominant nation's currency you become dependent, you stop being the master of your economy. You submit yourself to the rules and regulations of another country.

If Money were given to a People in greater Quantity than there was a Demand for, Money would fall in its value; but if only given equal to the Demand, it will not fall in value.

If raising or allaying [revaluing or devaluing] the Money could add to its Value, or have any good Effect on Home or Foreign Trade; Then no Nation would want Money [from that nation.]

The currency of any country, whether it be coin or bank-notes, cannot be increased beyond the mercantile wants of that country, without producing a depreciation in the parts which compose the currency.

The gold dollar shall be the standard unit of value. For all forms of money issued or coined in the United States, it shall be maintained at a parity with this standard.