Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Adam Hano, chapter 11, question 1

In Chapter 11 Charles Wheelan explains currency change. Since I am now here in the US the exchange rates affect me a lot. When my brother was here five years ago the exchange rate was much better for Euro. For 1 Euro you could get 1.4 dollars. Now it is around only 1.1. The cost of me traveling here therefore is higher by more than 30 percent.

Furthermore, Charles explains the cost of single currency such as Euro. He explains that by having Euro countries lost their power to control monetary policy. They simply are going with the flow that might not reflect their economy. This affects everyone in the Euro zone, because we have to bear the cost of Greece and other countries, for which the Euro is simply to expansive. 

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