The government may well decide to portray a strong currency as a sign of success, not an unwelcome burden.
Perhaps Britain at last has a stronger currency that is a sign of economic health, not impending disaster.
The disquiet that was expressed by IMF Managing Director Horst Kohler about the euro, followed later in the week by co-ordinated action to prop up the currency, was a sign of the worries shared now by all countries - about the possible consequences of sharp changes in exchange rates for world growth.
One merely needs to decline any offer for currency conversion when making a purchase and only sign receipts showing purchases in the local currency rather than in U.S. dollars, for example to avoid this trap.
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In particular the Germans, with traditionally the strongest economy and currency in Europe, were loth to sign up to monetary union with Italy, given its tradition of mountainous debts, a weak currency and inflation.
He also claimed that "most" EU member states that had not yet joined the single currency would, in time, sign up.
Financial markets shared Wall Street's relief that Brazil was not digging in for a protracted battle over its currency, and there was no sign of a speculative attack against the Hong Kong dollar.
And, as the referendum on the single currency approaches, the real differences between the United Kingdom and euroland may make it harder to persuade the British public to sign up to the single currency.
All the candidate countries have had to sign up to join the European single currency in due course.
In a sign of India's precarious position, its currency has lost more than 15% of its value against the dollar since August, making it the worst-performing currency in Asia.
Mr Ahmed says the two countries are yet to sign formal agreements on investment, shipping, tourism and currency exchange.
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The recent surge in bond yields issued by euro zone countries is a sign that investors don't believe leaders are fully committed to saving the currency, he said.
The market would likely take a Greek default and subsequent exit as a sign that anything is possible in Western Europe, including further erosion of the currency union itself.
Much of the recent weakness simply reverses the earlier safe-haven flight to dollars, a sign of investors' optimism about riskier assets rather than their fears about America's currency.
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It is not obvious, given the practical and economic advantages of currency union highlighted in the report, why that would be the case, if Scotland were willing to sign up to a Treasury-style set of constraints.
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