France & UK can pressure U.S. over dollar: Sarkozy

[bozothedeathmachine]

Linky (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080326/ts_nm/france_britain_dollar_dc_2)

Has Sarkozy flipped his lid? If OPEC can't influence US monetary policy, what makes this dude think he can?

Not to mention the fact that strengthening the $ implies increasing the federal interest rate which is being cut faster than an epileptic shaving with a straight razor.

[Architect]

MIght it simply be that, having predictably found his pro-US policies going down like a tonne of bricks with the French electorate, he's engaging in some European drum beating?

[Darat]

France does always seem to do its best to help bring down the value of the Euro....

[Flo]

Has Sarkozy flipped his lid?

Long before he was elected president ...

If OPEC can't influence US monetary policy, what makes this dude think he can?

The guy fancies himself as a new little Napoleon.

MIght it simply be that, having predictably found his pro-US policies going down like a tonne of bricks with the French electorate, he's engaging in some European drum beating?

The poor guy has had no success with any of his policies, his showbiz-like adventures and his glamorous remarriage have failed to win him the electorate, European drum beating is all that's left ...