esclarmonde, it is over, indeed.

one dollar has the real value (in terms of a commercial bookkeeping as every citizen is subject to) of 30 cents with a lot of good will.

idem for the european currencies.

the difference to the stamped value is smoke, illusion, capital gain for the jawks etc.. make the account and take into the account the law of the leverage 1:10 (playing with the stock exchange indexes) and you see how much profit they make every day with nothing else than a 0,8 g paper piece of paper. pecunia non olet but it does not bring them what they believe to be able to buy with it.

gigi