The Justice Department has been debased and politicized as never before in our history.
Since the dollar is the benchmark currency, when it is debased, other currencies must follow suit.
The fact that our political discourse has become debased in many ways is bad enough.
People were grateful for the diversion, and of course politics is pretty much debased this year anyway.
All of this means that as easy as they are to acquire, Likes are a debased currency.
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But if paper money is being debased, the evidence has yet to show up in consumer prices.
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However, sometimes other factors come into play that prevent a debased currency from losing value against other currencies.
By any standards, let alone the debased standard of most modern economics, the essays are lucid and literate.
In our debased political system, parochial interests too often trump national security.
Critics may puzzle over why the President debased himself and his office in this way, but it's no great mystery.
The debate about how far the Clintons have debased public office will doubtless rumble on in American bookshops for years.
Likewise, debased dollars wobble the scale at the point of exchange and push commodities up a la an oil shock.
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Bond prices would fall (and thus yields rise) as investors worried that they would be paid back in a debased currency.
Perhaps it is because of amazement that any individual would be willing to allow himself to be so debased in public.
In the process, while all currencies are debased, the floating system is failing to perform its most elementary promise: absorbing international imbalances.
When the rest of the world decides it no longer wants our debased dollars, nobody will be able to bail us out.
He advocates that people put their money in real assets ranging from cotton to natural gas, because currencies backed by government are being debased.
You can see Americans get richer as the currency gets debased.
But if artists are fed the debased and debasing notion that transgressiveness is all that matters even transgressiveness against artworks the next painting attacked may not be so lucky.
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But as a blogger on Eastgate.com noted recently, that equates brevity with debased taste, and sees patience for long stories as a mark of high culture.
But they are not doing this at a rate that puts the dollar under serious threat of being debased as the global reserve and trade currency of choice.
Of course if his advice is followed, a dollar that rests near all-time lows versus every major foreign currency along with gold needs to be debased even more.
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Because they cared that the constitutional process not be debased?
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It seems like a clever idea, because a cheaper dollar not only boosts American exports but also cheats foreign holders of Treasury debt by paying them in debased currency.
Demand for gold appears to be fueled by uncertainty and a move toward hard assets that provide security beyond a piece of paper that can be debased by the printing press.
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As Americans have learned in seeking cross-border trade with individuals in Mexico, its notoriously debased peso makes our southern neighbors less attractive trading partners than if the peso were strong and stable.
Even the act of sex itself is boring to some men unless it is ratcheted up in some strange, deviant fashion -- all at the expense of the thoroughly humiliated and debased woman.
President Clinton has debased the presidency now and, if he is allowed to remain in office, the low level to which he has brought the presidency will continue, and that is not tolerable.
Given that bonds usually fall when inflationary pressures rise, this suggests gold has not been playing its historical role as an asset for investors who believe that paper money will inevitably be debased.
The real reason for the ban is that a group of haughty, loud-mouthed critics claimed the egg sandwiches debased the Starbucks image, making the brand appear common, like Wendy's, McDonald's, Burger King or Dunkin' Donuts.
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