Friday, February 29, 2008
The U.S. Dollar is Windows
The front page of the Wall Street Journal had a bizarre analogy today. The article's headline was, "Dollar's Dive Deepens as Oil Soars." Then down in the middle of the article, but still above the fold, reporters Craig Karmin and Joanna Slater write:
[link (article behind paywall)]
. . . the world is unready to let go of America's unloved dollar. Akin to the way Microsoft's often-criticized Windows operating system remains indispensable to the majority of computer users, the dollar remains the common language of finance, the medium of exchange in everything from sugar to wheat to oil.
[link (article behind paywall)]
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