Criminals dumping weak US dollar for euro

meca · 08-23-2008, 06:41 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080822...y_080822212441

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OTTAWA (AFP) - The weakened US dollar has fallen out of favor with organized crime groups to pay for drug shipments or to settle scores, a Canadian government report said Friday.

hahaha bring your CSFB gold bars when you go to pick up your 2,000 Kilos

**ryph** · 08-23-2008, 07:30 PM

lol yea this is old news. when the euro began strengthening and with the 500 euro note, it was a wrap.

meca · 08-23-2008, 07:43 PM

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Organized criminal groups, topping 900 in Canada, are primarily focused on the illicit drug trade, but have also expanded into credit card fraud, organ trafficking, identity theft and even illegal logging of Canada's vast forests, said the report.

sounds like high margin markets that we should take a look at ;x

**ryph** · 08-23-2008, 08:05 PM

hahaha lets get into illegal logging

08-23-2008, 07:30 PM	#2
ryph ! Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NJ Posts: 11,197	lol yea this is old news. when the euro began strengthening and with the 500 euro note, it was a wrap. __________________ FDIC: Failed Bank List "for example, is to the general effect that optimism is a virtue in itself - that there is a mysterious merit in being hopeful and of glad heart, even in the presence of adverse and immovable fads. The man who hopes absurdly, it appears, is in some fantastic and gaseous manner a better citizen than the man who detects and exposes the truth. Bear this sweet democratic axiom clearly in mind. It is, fundamentally, what is the matter with the United States." - H. L. Mencken

08-23-2008, 08:05 PM	#4
ryph ! Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NJ Posts: 11,197	hahaha lets get into illegal logging __________________ FDIC: Failed Bank List "for example, is to the general effect that optimism is a virtue in itself - that there is a mysterious merit in being hopeful and of glad heart, even in the presence of adverse and immovable fads. The man who hopes absurdly, it appears, is in some fantastic and gaseous manner a better citizen than the man who detects and exposes the truth. Bear this sweet democratic axiom clearly in mind. It is, fundamentally, what is the matter with the United States." - H. L. Mencken

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