Several of Sleat's daughters proved excellent producers themselves however; Little Loch Broom produced the smart Soft Currency, while Just You Wait foaled the Gimcrack winner Reprimand, who went on to make his mark as a high-class miler.

The next set of contributions explore appropriate exchange rate regimes for developing countries and include discussions of the role of soft currency pegs in the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s, the destabilizing influence of financial flows between developed and developing countries, and the need for fundamental reforms in the international financial system.

However, consumers find imported appliances from dollar-linked economies like China to be more affordable than during the soft currency era.