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E. is simply using its products as currency to acquire an (often tax-advantaged) income stream.
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It is prodding firms to settle trade and even acquire foreign companies in its own currency.
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All of this means that as easy as they are to acquire, Likes are a debased currency.
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To survive, the currency may come to acquire a level of fiscal-policy co-ordination that will appal the British.
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Another attraction is that highly priced tracking stocks might one day be used as a richly valued currency with which to acquire other businesses.
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While that may be a reason to acquire a certain amount of government fiat currency, it is a transitory value because in the end it is still based on a State-sanctioned illusion.
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There is also little evidence that the Scots want to go on to acquire such things as armed forces, embassies, a currency or any of the other paraphernalia of full independence.
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Analysts said the decline is mostly due to a stronger dollar, meaning the Chinese government has to spend more renmimbi (RMB) to acquire the same amount of bonds it purchased a month prior, when their currency was stronger.
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It allowed the countries in possession of a currency benefiting from international prestige to give without taking, to lend without borrowing, and to acquire without paying.
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The need to acquire more tech could add to the pressure for Google to go public, so it could use its stock as currency.
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Moreover, the strong Brazilian currency trend means that Brazilians can spend less of their own hard earned money, the real, to acquire weak dollar assets like real estate.
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