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of my income is paid in US Dollars. June of this year saw one US Dollar equal to just half a British pound - so much for an inextricable link in currencies - As I convert my Helium earnings into pounds for my British bank account, a payment of $40 became worth just 20 before the deduction of commission by the bank. Today, that same $40 would get me just over 25 - a twenty-five percent improvement. By comparison, the dollar/euro rate for the same dates was 0.62 and 0.64 respectively. Fluctuations in the values of both the US Dollar and British Pound have been to the detriment of trade for both those great countries.

Today we are in a world recession - no doubt about it. I am not going to be smug and say we are OK in France or Europe, because we're not. What we have, though, is a common currency which makes it really feel like we are all in this together and that if we work hard as a team we can pull ourselves out of this together. I'm not unpatriotic being a Brit living abroad, but I so wish that Britain had seen sense back in 2002 and joined the Euro with its neighbours. I know that most of my fellow expats feel the same way, and I'm sure it is the same with Americans living in the Euro zone.

Today we can trade with anyone we want at the click of a mouse on our desktop or laptop computer. We can effectively work anywhere and everywhere in the world and we have at last begun the process of abandoning notions of class, colour and religious difference in order to make the world work better. What better, then, than to realise that money is just the stuff we have to use to trade with each other. Your gold is the same as my gold. Your beans are the same as my beans. So why oh why must we carry different symbols of wealth in our pockets?

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