In fact, it is precisely to Congress that the Constitution (in Article 1, Section 8) grants the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof.

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Steel and oil prices have skyrocketed, making those 5, 000-pound sport utilities that used to coin money for Ford more costly to make and more costly to operate.

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Then I asked Hoffmeister about this and he said that Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution states that Congress has the power to coin money and regulate the value of it.

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Maybe the options grant was their way of paying him back for providing Liberty with such a golden opportunity to coin money out of thin air just because they were cash rich at a time when Sirius was cash poor.

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The game will open a virtual store later this week, says Gerson, where players can use real money to buy the virtual coin currency.

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If rebalancing were sure to enhance returns, then you could coin money by going long a rebalanced account while going short an unrebalanced account.

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This would seem to ignore two factors: (1) the point of the coin is to pay for the debt, and (2) money is fungible.

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Finally, they brought the coin to the 2003 American Numismatic Association World's Fair of Money in Baltimore, where the four surviving 1913 Liberty nickels were being exhibited.

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Still, Feldman claims his systems can follow currency down to pennies or a 5-halala coin from Saudi Arabia, and identify serial numbers and issue-places of money orders and traveler's checks.

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