If your thesis that a country's currency's value was a function of the
strength of its military then we should see a clear correlation between
strong countries and strong currencies, and weak countries and weak
currencies. But we don't, instead currencies values are correlated with the
economic strength and trust in the strength and independence of their
central banks.

Prime examples are Russia - strong military, one of the top five in the
world, but weak currency and Switzerland who has a cute story about citizen
soldiers but whose currency is strong way out of proportion to their
military strength.

Your thesis is facile, sadly easily disproven.

-- Charles

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