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As an Canadian webmaster, I can say without a doubt that getting a 40% cut in net income (canadian dollars) blows chunks. While my expenses (like servers, content, domains) is all calculated in US dollars, my other expenses (like computers, electricity, housing, food, and everything else in life) is done in Canadian dollars. It has certainly changed my approach on some things.
I have been actively looking for sponsors that pay in Euros, and that handle european traffic better. The US porn market isn't as strong as it was a few yers ago, and the change in the exchange rate has made it significantly LESS profitable.
The US is working to pump up it's own economy by making it harder for imports to be competitive. This leads to more factor jobs in the US, which makes Bush look good. In the end, it just means that all the things american love (like electronics, clothes, and whatnot) are more expensive, and there are more minimum wage jobs out there in manufacturing stuff that would have been done in china otherwise.
I don't expect to see the dollar recover much for the next 6 - 12 months.
Anyone got some good Euro payout programs to recommend?
Alex
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