Because what that is saying is let us quietly steal a certain amount from every pound in circulation, let us steal a certain amount from every pound saved in building societies, in national savings, from every person who has been thrifty.
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And tourist chiefs predict the weak pound will cause US, European and Japanese tourists to see the Midlands as a bargain destination for a holiday.
Some traders have hundreds of kilos of notes ready to swap for pound sterling, US dollars or euros, with barrow-boy helpers moving the money around on two wheels or in the back of a car.
Luckily for most of us that weight gain is only a pound or two, according to a study by the National Institutes of Health.
The Egyptian pound has fallen further against the US dollar, despite efforts by the country's financial authorities to halt its slide on the money markets.
We wanted to capture share of wallet of the same parents Disney, Nickelodeon and Fisher Price were selling to, but doing so would inevitably put us head to head with the 800-pound gorillas in our space.
At the weekend members of the public teed off at US tycoon Donald Trump's multi-million pound golf resort in Aberdeenshire for the first time.
The only major market open on Friday night when Moody's made the announcement was in currency, and the pound lost nearly a cent against the US dollar.
But sources both inside the Treasury and Downing Street at the time have confirmed to us that Mr Brown did know the one million pound donation had come from Bernie Ecclestone.
At the moment, the pound is at a five-year low against the US dollar, which makes imported products more expensive.
Maybe the barking dog really was trying to alert us to budding economic troubles before it was summarily dispatched to the pound.
The USDX futures contract is designed to replicate the performance of being short the US Dollar against the following currencies: Euro, Japanese Yen, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Swedish Krona and Swiss Franc.
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You might have hoped that a more than 20% fall in the value of the pound during the financial crisis would have been enough to help us start to re-balance the UK economy - boosting the competitiveness of UK plc, and so reducing the gap between our exports and our imports.
The USDX measures the value of the US dollar against a basket of currencies that includes the euro, yen, pound, Canadian dollar, Swiss franc and the Swedish krona exactly the currencies that China is most likely including in its own basket and which are now appreciating as a result.
In unofficial trading on Sunday, the Egyptian pound hit a new low on Sunday of about 6.30 to the US dollar, dealers told Reuters.
Holiday weight gain tends to be small--an average of a pound a year, according to one study--but it sticks with us and is a leading cause of obesity later in life.
The Egyptian pound hit a new low on Sunday of about 6.30 to the US dollar in unofficial trading after the central bank introduced a new currency regime, dealers told Reuters.
The British pound has been under consistent selling pressure through the London trading session and well into the US trading day.
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