The working group argues a currency union between Edinburgh and London would not be vulnerable to the problems that have beset the eurozone.
According to investment fund watcher Barclay Group, the average currency fund returned 4.5% in 2000.
Spaniards fear that Italy's patchier economy will keep both countries out of the first group to join the single currency.
The greenback has been losing ground since the weekend, when a meeting of the G7 group of rich countries said that currency values should be set by market forces, casting doubt over the US government's traditional commitment to maintaining the dollar strong.
As a young man, Mr Leutwiler had gained attention as the energetic secretary of a group called the Association for a Sound Currency.
The Greek crisis only confirms the folly of binding a group of disparate countries together in a currency zone with no mechanism, such as a central fiscal authority, to address its internal imbalances.
The best way to trade on that hunch, says Ronald Mark, a currency trader for the Price Group in Chicago, is to buy the U.S. Dollar Index traded on the New York Board of Trade.
At HCL Technologies, an India-based IT services firm with 88, 000 workers, chief executive Vineet Nayar recently launched an experiment in which he gave a group of 100 employees 1, 000 virtual currency units to use in an online exchange.
But Thursday's data means that the 17 countries of the single currency area have not expanded as a group since the autumn of 2011.
On that front, Shannon says the group is considering alternatives like using some sort of alternative currency or donating winnings to charity.
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" The recent consensus by finance ministers from the Group of 20 industrial and developing nations to refrain from currency manipulation, she said, was an "important signal.
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The political deadlock is leading to concerns that Greece will not have a functioning government in place when it needs to make critical debt payments next month, which could in turn jeopardize its place in the eurozone, the group of 17 European Union countries that use the euro currency.
He also noted that the Group of 20 leading industrial nations had pledged not to undertake competitive currency devaluations as such action undermines economic and financial stability.
The paradox is that part of the euro's purpose is to re-empower the European electorate by equipping the EU with a currency strong enough to challenge the rule of the tiny group of foreign-exchange dealers who, in a floating exchange-rate regime, can settle the fate of national economic policies.
Excluding the impact of foreign currency gains related to its 20% stake in the Westinghouse Group, earnings rose to only 57 cents per share.
There are reports that the G7 group of rich countries may release a statement later this week to cool talk about currency markets.
Jan Dehn, an economist at Ashmore Group in London, said there are at least four potential candidates to trigger a wider currency war.
The Group of Seven (G7) issued a statement to dampen the discussions of a global currency war so fervently covered by the mainstream news.
The German Government's financial rescue plan for the country's second largest construction group is seen as one of the reason for the decline in Europe's single currency, the euro.
In Britain in Europe's report, the pro-euro group argue that the UK will lose inward investment and political influence unless it signs up to the single currency.
On Tuesday the secret-spilling group announced via Twitter that it will now be accepting donations of Bitcoins, a wholly digital and theoretically untraceable currency.
In September, 1985, a group of international financial heavyweights gathered at the Plaza Hotel on 59th Street in New York and hammered out a currency agreement.
The lack of any monetary rule to constrain the Fed and the lack of any convertibility principle, as existed under the classical gold standard, means the Fed has a monopoly on base money (currency held by the public plus reserves), the supply of which is determined by a small group of Fed officials who presume to be able to forecast the future.
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