This year, I have been much better about spending money in Mae Sai than I was last year. I haggle, I know exactly when I'm being ripped off and my rent is about 1/3 of what it was in my old house. And ya know what? It doesn't change a thing:
http://www.x-rates.com/d/THB/USD/graph120.html
What is going on with the dollar? Can someone please explain this to me?
posted by Jamie @ 10:51 PM
6 Comments:
What it changes is that you are no longer being taken advantage of. So you have lost another lilttle bit of innocence on the road to becoming an adult. And if you are asking questions about currency conversion rates as related to the economy & purchasing power for durable goods, you are way more adult than I am! Good luck & when you find out, please explain it to me.
Dude... I had no idea that the dollar was doing so poorly.
shoot.
I don't understand it. To me, it's like an uncontrollable force. Like gravity. Or the tides. Or interest rates. Who the hell knows how they work?
i feel your pain, jamie, i feel your pain. visa and amex have made me an honorary lifetime-worth-of-debt cardholder member because the euro is kickin' ass, and the dollar is fast approaching canada...sigh. :-)
i love you, i miss you, come home.
p.s. while you have been running around, i have been sitting here, idle, trying to figure out how to rule proof Coleman v. Keebler to demonstrate the application of the test for the materiality of one's misrepresentations on one's resume during the job application process, and pondering whether this will limit Paula Pepper's available remedies (by excluding reinstatement and front pay and limiting back pay to the moment the information was acquired) under the after-acquired evidence doctrine from McKennon, where, like the plaintiff in McKennon, Pepper has claimed she was fired for age-based discriminatory reasons in violation of the ADEA.
Don't listen to Linda - as long as there are lawyers in the world, someone will always be prepared to take advantage of you. Alternatively, they will give you a really hard assignment which will leave you scratching your head during the wee hours, trying to figure out why you thought it was such a good idea to go to law school in the first place.
Also, I have a four-letter word to describe what's happening to the USD: tank!!
jamie jamie jamie. what is YOUR number? just found out that pilar is there too (hi). what fun! i miss the 7-11. i went there more often than I ever have in the states...the skittles there did not have gelatin and it was a glorious find. also slurpees, mentos and whatnot. how have you been? please tell me...is there a woman who peddles around on the strip selling mango sticky rice? mmmm i just wish she didn't change locations every night. one shouldn't have to work for their desserts. miss you lots.
A falling dollar isn't all bad. Think of it this way. By the time you decide to return to the US, our exports will be so cheap that we'll be pumping them out like a queen bee would her larvae. To meet the demand for our cheaper goods and services on the international market, companies will have to start expanding and hiring more workers. More workers naturally means more middle and executive management to do whatever it is that they do. So companies will start competing over a shrinking pool of qualified managers (whatever that means), increasing their salaries, etc... Middle and upper management will thus have more disposable income. As we all know, Americans don't save their money. This means that among other things, there will be a surge in spending vis-a-vis doggy luxury goods. This is where you benefit. Picture it. The moment your plane flies into JFK and you step onto the tarmack, you will be met by a gaggle of doggy daycare people, begging you to come back. Possibly offering to give you your own parking spot. Now that's not a bad way to start the New Year, is it?
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