SustainabiliTank: South of the US border, in countries connected to the US dollar, the economy must be worse then in the US – if judged by the price of bananas at vendors’ carts on the Manhattan Upper East Side.

South of the US border, in countries connected to the US dollar, the economy must be worse then in the US – if judged by the price of bananas at vendors’ carts on the Manhattan Upper East Side.

Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on November 10th, 2009
by Pincas Jawetz (PJ@SustainabiliTank.com)

You see, while one US dollar buys you one Florida orange, you get for one US dollar now 5 bananas from Colombia – up from 4. Attention! This is the only produce that has fallen in price.

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Posted in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, New York, Reporting from Washington DC

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