World's most expensive cities

Guess what: not one U.S. city is in the 10 most expensive, as determined by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business information arm of the Economist's publisher.

Here's the list, Tokyo being the most expensive:

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Tokyo

Osaka-Kobe

Paris

Oslo

Copenhagen

Zurich

London

Reykjavik

Geneva

Vienna
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Amazingly, the most expensive U.S. city - New York - ranks only 27th in the world.

It's the dollar's weakness that's pushed New York down to 27th from last year's 13th.

Yen or euros, now that's real money.

We really are on our way to becoming a banana republic, though we're not down there with Buenos Aires quite yet.

If you want to see the entire list, go here.