Several senators recently revived a mothballed demand that the Commerce Department should investigate China's currency regime as an unfair trade subsidy.
In order to counteract slow growth, El Salvador must develop an array of economic policies alongside a choice of currency regime.
It is time for international policymakers to be clearer about this and for Brazil to accept the consequences for its own currency regime.
China was furious about the new rules on currencies, regarding them as a thinly disguised American-sponsored tool for attacking Beijing's currency regime.
Indeed, Brazil's currency regime may have made much-needed fiscal adjustment harder: now that Brazilians have conquered inflation, they are loth to push through painful budgetary reforms.
The Egyptian pound hit a new low on Sunday of about 6.30 to the US dollar in unofficial trading after the central bank introduced a new currency regime, dealers told Reuters.
The currency regime that would succeed it would mean the re-emergence of the mark as the Continent's dominant currency and rule by the German Bundesbank, which is even less accountable to Europe's public than the European Central Bank.
If that flight by Chinese nationals spooked foreign investors enough to deter capital inflows, there could be significant downward pressure on the Chinese yuan under a free-floating currency regime, in which case the currency is now overvalued, not undervalued.
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Under a strict currency-board regime, interest rates adjust automatically.
It is understood that both Germany's Lufthansa national airline and Austrian Airlines are paying the Belgrade regime hard currency in exchange for taking over JAT's trade on some air routes.
The structure of the currency and monetary instruments declaration regime, hinges on the existence of a physical object.
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Under such a regime no local currency would be issued unless it had 100% backing from hard currency reserves, such as the dollar or the euro.
As for Argentina, riding a temporary lift from farm exports and a cheap currency, the latest Peronist regime is likely to lead where the earlier ones did-to a deadbeat dead end.
And then there's the money: Castro's doctors help to keep the Cuban regime equipped with hard currency.
So the currency actually, the money received by ordinary Zimbabweans is almost worthless, whilst the foreign currency, retained by the Zimbabwean regime, is funding their thuggery and their violence.
But the lesson of the past 20 years is that this helps the regime by giving it currency or other aid to pay off its members and by enhancing its international stature.
She also introduced a floating exchange rate regime and lifted controls on currency trading.
The complex is considered to be an important source of hard currency for Kim Jong Un's regime.
The regime still needs this source of hard currency, and it would make sense for the South to close it down.
Since last year the regime has imposed, then swiftly abandoned, draconian currency reforms.
In 2003, the State Department concluded that the North Korean regime had sustained its economic viability principally through counterfeit currency operations.
"I've made it very clear that there are real potential benefits of membership of the euro, particularly for manufacturing industry in terms of things like currency stability, transparency of costs and simplification of the trading regime, " she said.
Special zones apart, traders and investors from China were badly burned by the regime's sudden and disastrous confiscation of the old currency in 2009.
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The Castro regime would thus be offered a desperately needed new vehicle for earning hard currency.
Of course an authoritarian regime has the ability to mandate changes in wages, to make dramatic shifts in managing currency and to reorient capital investment towards services.
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