The post was published on the blog of Makaila Nguela, another renowned Chadian dissident blogger whom the Chadian authorities are trying to silence after his public criticism of Chadian President Idriss Deby.

Even Switzerland is intervening to weaken the franc.

The Swiss franc is pegged to the euro.

Stevenson, W.R., Loria, R., Franc, G.D., and Weingartner, D.P.

Why not add the Swiss franc or the Canadian dollar?

If French Africa is to grow, the franc zone must be dismantled.

Just as the strong franc, the so called franc fort of the 1990s, did not imply an economically strong France, a strong euro should not be equated with an powerfully growing Europe.

The Swiss franc is not the only currency that has appreciated in recent months.

The bulk of the CFA franc money supply comes from trade between France and its African allies. As a result, the franc zone's basic features have always been scarce money and high interest rates.

The bulk of the CFA franc money supply comes from trade between France and its African allies.

As a result, the franc zone's basic features have always been scarce money and high interest rates.

Rubleŭskaja created very believable images of such historical figures as Francysk Skaryna, Franc Savič, and Barbara Radzivił.

I say this guy Alberto Giacometti, shown here with some of his sculptures on the Swiss 100 franc note.

Alternatively, it may be that the SNB mostly wishes to talk the franc down to break the safe haven effect.

It is true that the franc has appreciated in real terms by 8 since the crisis started in August 2007.

In that case, the franc will not move much more, in any direction, and there will be no need for further interventions.

Instead, they shifted the peg for the CFA franc to the euro while keeping the same rules, institutions, and mode of functioning.

France's unchallenged political, economic, and military domination of its former sub Saharan African colonies is rooted in a currency, the CFA franc.

Replace the euro with the French franc, and the dollar with the DM, and the discussion evokes a strong feeling of déjŕ vu.

More surprising was the simultaneous announcement that it was intervening on the foreign exchange market with the aim of reversing the appreciation of the franc.

Germany satisfied the criterion with ease during 1996 8, though by most measures the Deutschemark was 20 overvalued compared to the franc and other eurozone currencies.

If the Japanese firm sets the price in Swiss francs, it is exposed to price risk as the yen price will fluctuate with the yen Swiss franc exchange rate.

The only rational reason for the CFA franc's existence is connivance between France and the governing elites of its former colonies in order to plunder the franc zone states.

The obvious choice would be to start by exchanging one new franc for one euro and then leave it to the global currency markets to re price the new currency.

This was followed two years later by the first Federal Coinage Act, passed by the Federal Assembly on 7 May 1850, which introduced the franc as the monetary unit of Switzerland.

France's unchallenged political, economic, and military domination of its former sub Saharan African colonies is rooted in a currency, the CFA franc. Created in 1948 to help France control the destiny of its colonies, fourteen countries Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Bissau Guinea, and Chad maintained the franc zone even after they gained independence decades ago.

The single currency was conceived as an answer to the upheavals of the postwar period double digit inflation, high unemployment, and speculative attacks on the pound, the lira, and the French franc.

The British may turn their nose up at the euro to which even the supposedly independent Swiss franc is pegged but it will almost certainly remain the currency of nearly 300 million Europeans.

The German government still does not admit that as if France before the euro would have offered up Seine Saint Denis or Corsica to pay off its foreign debts to keep the franc.

It is true that the franc has appreciated in real terms by 8 since the crisis started in August 2007. This is commonly attributed to the currency reputation as a safe haven during troubled times.

The premier and oldest of these unions is composed of the fourteen countries that belong to the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa and the West African Economic and Monetary Union, which both use the CFA franc.

In Central and Eastern Europe, foreign banks extended euro and Swiss franc denominated corporate, home, and car loans to firms and households with incomes in local currency, which added to corporate and household financial distress when local currencies tanked.

Perhaps it will be possible to persuade the Germans if the alternative is eurozone collapse, which would put the Deutschemark, or a Northern Euro, in the uncomfortable position that the Swiss franc occupies today too strong for its own good.

Krugman argues that Japan was only the first of the major economies to succumb to chronic deflation, back in the 1990s, and has now been followed by the European Union, China, and most recently Switzerland, with its soaring franc and falling prices.

A government that wants to replace the euro with, say, the new franc (which is not to suggest that France or Belgium would be likely to abandon the euro) would have to reverse the process by which its currency was originally swapped for euros.

Countries must remain within the European exchange rate mechanism (ERM II) for two years in order to ensure the right exchange rate when they adopt the euro. Germany satisfied the criterion with ease during 1996 8, though by most measures the Deutschemark was 20 overvalued compared to the franc and other eurozone currencies.

The political problem is that the second solution cannot yet be sold to German voters, let alone to nationalist fringe parties like France s National Front and Finland s True Finns. Perhaps it will be possible to persuade the Germans if the alternative is eurozone collapse, which would put the Deutschemark, or a Northern Euro, in the uncomfortable position that the Swiss franc occupies today too strong for its own good.