Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Currency Wars; EUR, CHF

Here are the charts for the Euro (the pre-2000 figures for EUR are derived, presumably) and Swiss Frank against a basket of currencies since 1990:

3 comments:

Onus Probandy said...

I'm not sure what we're meant to conclude?

Isn't the key feature of having an independent currency that it can be devalued during a recession, preventing the need to reduce capacity?

If that's so, then this chart really doesn't say much about the Euro other than it devalued during a recession...

Steven_L said...

I think in hindsight the CHF was the place to hide for the duration of the crisis, barring gold and silver.

Mark Wadsworth said...

OP, you can conclude what you like. The point about devaluations is that not everybody can do it at the same time.

SL, yeah, but where's the place to hide now?