So the US dollar is going down big time and by some weird twist of fate (as I am banned from entry to the US) I have more American than Canadian dollars - and the CAD is overtaking the USD-- I could have exchanged a few days ago when the CAD was at 96 to the USD but now it is par.... not sure if anyone else who gets funds in American is undergoing this same question..
is the 600 billion of inflationary printing really going to weaken the US dollar enough to merit of dumping all my US currency?
I'm headed back to mexico next week and I know I'll be able to spend US there... but I'm wondering how much I should immediately convert to PESOs...
anyone here with experience on FOREX? Do I dump the USD for PESOS or CAD ASAP?
ZeJayMan
I'd go for it. Whatever you say.
w_ashley
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Originally posted by ZeJayMan
I'd go for it. Whatever you say.
Is that two shakes in a row though?
LAdazeNYnights
Why are you banned from entering the US?
w_ashley
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Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
Why are you banned from entering the US?
I was taking too many US assets from Americans - OR RATHER - I would have taken US assets from Americans.
It all stems to my purchase of a boat in San Fransisco at Coyote Point. ...... CBP essentially just didn't want to let me into the country and concocted reasoning on convuluted grounds.
This escalated over 4 later legal entry attempts. That prohibited me from Entry based on my attempt to immigrate to the US and live and work in America (totally untrue)
I may have broken even though with free food, lodgings and flights provided by CBP/DHS and ICE, but the sad part is - doing this if the numbers I got were accurate cost the US several thousand dollars to not take my money while I traveled through the US... totally DOES not make sense - other than - I geuss some Americans don't like me enough to let me pass through their country and buy their goods.
If I go in again they say I'll be put in Jail for 10 years. Last time they tried to get me to work too.... and the reason they are trying to stop me from travling in the US is because they think I want to live and work there.. but they are threatening to force me to stay for a decade if I come back! Makes no sense - considering the stated $200/day price tag --- ... that is $73000 a year to keep me in the US or close to a million dollars of US tax payer dollars just because I'd like to travel through the US on short trips or via US airlines to other countries. In other words they would spend a fairly good wage on keeping me in the US because I wanted to use a US company to travel via. It makes absolutely NO sense.
On the plus side I've found a good direct flight from pearson via westjet for my upcoming trip (and for about the same price $200 each way) and I hope to god nothing goes wrong with the plane. (this was on short booking notice and with an extended return date so it was a good deal -- as flight taxes are nearly that much to begin with)
And while there may be good reasons to keep me from entering the US, none of them were pursued by legal means -------- I could of had it much worse but I didn't do anything an American wouldn't do or hasn't done. Honestly it is not the fact that I'm being denied, but WHY I'm being denied that is what gets me. I've lived in canada all my life - travel too and from Canada multiple times a year, have a house and car in canada, my family and friends are in Canada, my university is in Canada -- and I'm deemed to have insufficient ties to Canada and that I would never return to Canada if I entered the US - COME ON... it is madness to think this - Mexico costs sooo much less than the US with arguably better weather and scenery.
For the real reason you'd have to ask the border gaurds.
igottaknow
jenga
PARITY BABY, YEAH!
ChemEnhanced
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Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
Why are you banned from entering the US?
I would definitely hold onto your $5.25 of US currency.
igottaknow
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Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
Why are you banned from entering the US?
Imagine if you will the USA is this empty spot and WashLey is trying to get into it.
Joss Weatherby
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Originally posted by ********
I was taking too many US assets from Americans - OR RATHER - I would have taken US assets from Americans.
It all stems to my purchase of a boat in San Fransisco at Coyote Point. ...... CBP essentially just didn't want to let me into the country and concocted reasoning on convuluted grounds.
This escalated over 4 later legal entry attempts. That prohibited me from Entry based on my attempt to immigrate to the US and live and work in America (totally untrue)
I may have broken even though with free food, lodgings and flights provided by CBP/DHS and ICE, but the sad part is - doing this if the numbers I got were accurate cost the US several thousand dollars to not take my money while I traveled through the US... totally DOES not make sense - other than - I geuss some Americans don't like me enough to let me pass through their country and buy their goods.
If I go in again they say I'll be put in Jail for 10 years. Last time they tried to get me to work too.... and the reason they are trying to stop me from travling in the US is because they think I want to live and work there.. but they are threatening to force me to stay for a decade if I come back! Makes no sense - considering the stated $200/day price tag --- ... that is $73000 a year to keep me in the US or close to a million dollars of US tax payer dollars just because I'd like to travel through the US on short trips or via US airlines to other countries. In other words they would spend a fairly good wage on keeping me in the US because I wanted to use a US company to travel via. It makes absolutely NO sense.
On the plus side I've found a good direct flight from pearson via westjet for my upcoming trip (and for about the same price $200 each way) and I hope to god nothing goes wrong with the plane. (this was on short booking notice and with an extended return date so it was a good deal -- as flight taxes are nearly that much to begin with)
For the real reason you'd have to ask the border gaurds.
