Sweden.Se says that Sweden’s trade surplus widened in November to 12.3 billion Kroner (over 1.7 billion dollars). The value of Swedish exports came to 98.4 billion kronor, an increase of 10 percent from the figure for November 2005. Imports totalled 86.1 billion kronor, a rise of nine percent.

It must feel a lot better to be holding the IOUs than to be writing them!