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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (98299)	5/14/2003 10:53:20 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Perhaps you can explain why the Euro has moved from 80% of the dollar to 14% above the dollar Interest rates. b2b.thefinancials.com It seems to me that the recently enacted anti-terrorism legislation is regulating some of the freedoms the US population has enjoyed. Perhaps. With respect to air travel, life has become more inconvenient. What freedoms have US citizens lost in the last two years? As for stasis, the apathy of a large part of the American voters is well known Perhaps what you see as "apathy" in US citizens is reasonable satisfaction with government. For instance, the US is not about to see a nation wide strike as is coming up in France and elsewhere as response to the government changing pension arrangements. Generally speaking, there is less regulation of business, large and small (the vast majority of US small business is sole proprietorship), in US than in Europe and a greater rate of business formation.