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Go Dollar!

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As we are preparing for our trip to London I started watching, with great displeasure, the demise of the US Dollar. However, August has brought some pleasant changes. (Note, this is a chart of how many £ GBP’s you can get for $1 USD. Higher is better for us.)

3 Month Chart of GBP v. USD

Seeing these recent moves I’m feeling that I picked a good day to wire the 2nd half of our apartment payment as well as the £1,000 security deposit. We are at the best point of the entire year.

1 Year Chart of GBP v. USD

Here is a live, updating chart to see how things continue.

Live Chart

Charts are all from my alma mater BigCharts.com.

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  1. I sure hope you have a licensing agreement in place for these.

    Ira

    14 Aug 08 at 4:24 pm

  2. I’m hopeful that the copious attribution and hyperlinks are satisfactory. :-)

    Jamie

    14 Aug 08 at 4:30 pm

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