Foreign Exchange Paper
A country's currency is a gauge of how well that country's economy is doing. "Currently the United States has a 3% real rate of return. The short-term interest rate is 5.25% and the inflation rate is 2.25% based on the core-rate from the GDP numbers" (Kordell, 2008).
If one compares our real rate of return with other countries; Canada +2.50, Britain +2.50, Euro FX +0.25, and Japan +1.15 one can see that money tended to flow towards the U.S. over the past several years ever since the monetary policy was changed and interest rates in the U.S. started to rise. (Kordell, 2008)
The American dollar has been the world's principal currency since the end of World War II (Wong & Khan, 2006). "Following the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in 1970, the US dollar has been the benchmark for other national currencies. No other currencies, the deutsche mark, yen or the pound sterling, have come to being a close contender for the dollar's international role" (Wong &......

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Title: Foreign Exchange
Approximate Word Count: 1415
Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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