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2005-07-16 Arabia

Prince sees dollar peg as key to a Gulf 'euro'

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-07-16 20:14|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ... plans for a "euro-style" Arab single currency in the region.

Call it the Nasser...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-07-16 21:50|| 2005-07-16 21:50|| Front Page Top

#2 "Dinar", of course, comes from the Roman silver Denarius, another evil western currency, but one that predates Big Mo.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-07-16 21:55|| 2005-07-16 21:55|| Front Page Top

#3 They should cut right to the chase and call it the "bbl".

Posted by AzCat 2005-07-16 22:43|| 2005-07-16 22:43|| Front Page Top

#4 This bullshit is why we went to war in the first place.

No changing teams in the middle of the game please oil producers or we will destroy you.

Thank ya, thank ya very much!

EP

Posted by ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-07-16 22:46|| 2005-07-16 22:46|| Front Page Top

#5 The US economy has proven beyond doubt that it is the locomotive for growth of world economies

Hey, the arabs get something most europeans don't!

Posted by mmurray821 2005-07-16 22:48|| 2005-07-16 22:48|| Front Page Top

#6 geez - with all the press about the Chicom economic miracle you'd think they'd wanna peg it to the ultrastable chicom currency....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-07-16 23:02|| 2005-07-16 23:02|| Front Page Top

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