Ah, the financial press.<p><i>> With the currency already in freefall amid concern about a so-called hard Brexit, Friday’s slide took it to the weakest level since March 1985.</i><p><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/gbpusd=x?ltr=1" rel="nofollow">https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/gbpusd=x?ltr=1</a> - look at the 5 year view.<p>The currency took a sharp drop right after the vote, quite possibly as much because the BoE said they'd engage in a massive QE (money printing) program as the vote itself. Since then GBP/USD has acting fairly normal, as in, continuing a general weakening trend that has been going on for several years now. Zooming out to the ten year view shows what an <i>actual</i> freefall looks like as the relatively huge drop from $2 down to $1.50 during the financial crisis hit. The movements of the past few days are quite small relative to that.<p>But I guess freefall sounds exciting and showing a longer term graph is not.