The Fed would have to abandon its interest rate fetish, and target the price of something real.
China is expected to face renewed pressure to abandon its fixed exchange rate, which G7 nations, in particular the US, have blamed for a surge in cheap Chinese exports.
It is conceivable that we might abandon a floating exchange-rate system, as the BRIC countries, especially China, are not as happy with today's system as many in the West are.
Worries are mounting about one of Europe's benchmark interest rates, after another bank on Wednesday decided to abandon the panel that sets the rate.
George Soros, for example, famously bet against the pound and forced the British government to abandon its membership of Europe's exchange-rate mechanism in September 1992.
As disappointing as this news might be to some investors, it is hard to fault the company for opting to abandon a business that has not produced its expected rate of returns.
It is also unclear whether Suncor and Syncrude, two companies which together account for almost half of the output from the oil sands, can be persuaded to abandon voluntarily Crown contracts that entrench their low royalty rate until 2016.
ECONOMIST: Alberta raises oil royalties��but by less than meets the eye
Novelists trafficking in the present would do well to abandon their lingering prejudices against historical fiction as something ready-made and second-rate.
Exchange-rate flexibility is more trouble than it is worth, advocates say, so abandon it once and for all.
Earlier this year, the ministry buckled again under political pressure, being forced to abandon a new way of calculating connection charges that would have led to a 41% rate cut.
In testimony before the Senate budget committee last week, he stated that the Chinese government's massive exchange-rate interventions were causing growing imbalances in the domestic economy that will force China to abandon its currency peg.
应用推荐