Contracibility: 54th percentile {dwnarrow} THE DOLLAR Our once-mighty currency has hit lows against the euro, the Japanese yen, the Chinese yuan, World of Warcraft gold pieces, aluminum, copper, sugar and Splenda.
The flight to safety is hurting once-mighty currencies like Britain's pound.
Russia's central bank spent at least $3bn this month to slow the rouble's decline, depleting the nation's still-mighty foreign currency reserves.
Now, its stockmarket, currency and mighty conglomerates are collapsing and it has undergone the biggest international bailout in history.
Local currency The mighty US dollar, or greenback, which also happens to be the world's unofficial reserve currency.
How are we supposed to believe them, if they have not shown one time that they genuinely wanted to improve our situation?" At bottom, the euro zone crisis is a result of imbalances in which weaker countries like Italy and Greece are forced to compete in the same currency with mighty Germany, something that will cause recurring crises even if the current one is fixed, experts say.
The biggest economic mistake, though understandable in political terms, was the setting of an exchange rate of 1 1 for the east German currency against the mighty Deutschemark.
First, even a small, poor, post-Soviet state in demographic decline can survive, indeed thrive, in a de-facto currency union with mighty Germany.
Whole nations trembled at the prospect that the mighty hedge fund might attack their currencies or stock markets.
The weak currency helps sustain China's mighty export economy by lowering the global price of Chinese goods.
Rather than digging themselves into a deeper recession and democratic deficit through austerity measures, the states in the common currency need to form a full and mighty union on Anglo-American lines.
