Since the dollar is the benchmark currency, when it is debased, other currencies must follow suit.
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.
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.
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 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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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.
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.
Let's understand, of course, that President Clinton debased the Office of the Presidency, but let's say once and for all that we are not going to have the political hijacking of the Office of the Presidency.
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They cannot suffer when paid in the best money known to man, but are the peculiar and most defenseless victims of a debased and fluctuating currency, which offers continual profits to the money changer at their cost.
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In other news overnight, well-known, bow-tie-wearing commodity trader Jimmy Rogers reportedly said Tuesday that world currencies being debased will allow raw commodity markets, including the precious metals, to extend their long-term price uptrends for the next eight to 10 years.
On its own, the distant object of wealth should be incentive enough, but with our Treasury seeking a debased dollar, and Congress looking to increase the tax penalty on investment returns, it would certainly help if Washington were to remove these two savings impediments.
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