But the link was anyway pretty feeble, except for currencies with hyperinflation.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

This is good news for pretty much everyone, except the credit card issuers.

FORBES: New Credit Card Swipe Fee Rules Are Good News For Shoppers

Except for the highest-income households, pretty much all of it is caused by the return of payroll tax rates to pre-2010 levels.

FORBES: The Fiscal Cliff Deal In One Picture

The instruments are pretty much the same, except for a few we've picked up along the way.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Behind me, you see pretty much a desolate field, except for the U.S. Jolly helicopters.

CNN: Bob Franken: U.S. forces secure Iraqi airstrip

The most pressing problem the Navy currently faces is in its operations and maintenance account, which funds pretty much everything the sea services need except for military pay and weapons purchases.

FORBES: Washington Budget Wars Poised To Devastate Military Communities

The First Minister satirised Labour for demanding the resignation of pretty well every minister - except him.

BBC: College funding controversy

We are on the verge of a retirement crisis, something pretty much everyone knows except, apparently, people campaigning for president.

FORBES: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, The Presidential Debate, Social Security And The Upcoming Retirement Crisis

The ballooning in the CDS prices for Lloyds and RBS is pretty similar to the ballooning of the CDS prices for Spanish, French and Italian banks - except that in the case of the big Italian banks, Unicredit and Intesa, the cost of insuring debt is even higher.

BBC: Investors love the UK but not its banks