Sunday, July 22, 2007

Dollar's Record-Setting Tumble Turns Into Boon for George Bush, Coca-Cola

(Bloomberg) -- Everyone from Nobel Prize laureates
to the world's biggest bond investor says the Bush administration
has reason to cheer the dollar's slide to historic lows.

The currency has lost 13.2 percent since January 2001, when
George W. Bush took office, the most under any president since at
least Gerald Ford, who left the White House in 1977. That's based
on a Federal Reserve index that tracks the dollar against the
currencies of 38 U.S. trading partners, including Germany, Japan
and Canada.


Read more at Bloomberg Currencies News

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