>Under Milosevic, when people managed to save anything from their meager
>wages and pensions paid in dinars, they usually converted it into German
>marks so they didn't have to watch the value plummet by the day.
>
>Hours after Milosevic's regime collapsed, Kostunica's coalition took
>control of the national bank's payments section, and the value of the
>Yugoslav dinar suddenly went up 28% against the mark. The stronger dinar
>took a huge bite out of the mark-based savings--and thus the purchasing
>power--of many people just as prices were shooting up.
don't worry, the dinar will fall again soon.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
