Moti Bassok, Hagai Amit and Dafna Maor, Haaretz Correspondents: Israel Bank intervenes in foreign currency market, buys dollars
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Title:Chris lithwaite- money genius ??
Name:Avrum
City: MontrealState: Canada
If you knew anything about what is happening in the world economy rather than focussing on how to bash Israel you would know that many countrys` central banks have put cash into the market in the last few days.

The US dollar has been hurt badly by a number of reasons...including the Iraq war...but the biggest hit has been due to the sub prime mortgage fiasco. And according to a number of experts the shit has not really hit the fan. the shortfall for the major lenders around the world is in the trillions of dollars.

As of today regular gas in Canada is about 5.00/gallon. In the USA they are complaining about gas being $3.00/gallon.