During periods of rapid inflation, Gold tends to rise in value, keeping up with or even outpacing inflation.
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And you don't even have to be a dead rock icon for your artistic output to rise in value.
To limit the risk, Dalio wrote that jewellers should purchase gold-futures contracts designed to rise in value when the price of gold falls.
Likewise, Soros, like others, has studied the fate of the dollar in our deficit-ridden, debt-laden economy and decided that the price of gold was going to rise in value as the globe lost more and more faith in the dollar.
Speyer's net worth is up a bit since the 2012 Forbes 400 list thanks to the rise in value of his firm's most prized property, Rockefeller Center, co-owned with the family of Lester Crown.
Housing is not gold-like in the sense that gold priced in all currencies tends to rise when currencies decline in value, but the historical correlation between commodity spikes and nominal housing health is very real, and was there during the Bush years for all to see.
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Bank of China's move comes at a time of U.S. pressure on China to let its currency rise in value.
We got a financial adviser who argues against our instincts to sell investments whenever we see a mild rise in their value, and Alejandro got an accountant who encourages him to view debt, when appropriate, as a business tool.
There are broadly three issues: income, vulnerability to a rise in interest rates (which cuts the value of lower-yielding bonds) and exposure to erosion by inflation (which reduces the value of both income and capital).
If they thought the Bank of England could deliver a rise in what people earn relative to the nominal value of their respective debts, they would vote for that.
This is in marked contrast to previous years - 2010 saw a 9% rise, while 2009 saw stocks rise in value by 22% during the year.
By holding assets to maturity, the government could benefit if they rise in value.
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Berger thinks the value of questioning will continue to rise sharply in the business world.
The money will be used to fund special payments to shareholders who, after years of seeing their shares rise in value, have become frustrated in recent months.
Real estate offered a golden opportunity, according to the European Renaissance Fund, not because it would rise in value any time soon, but rather because "a lot of existing portfolios will be offloaded by distressed investors".
Different durations of bonds vary in value to the degree that interest rates will rise or fall in the future.
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Carlyle is putting less emphasis on pricing shares high at the IPO, instead hoping they rise in value once they are traded, according to people familiar with the matter.
And the rise in the book value of their equity holdings adds to the proportion of risky assets held by life companies, adding also to the mismatch of duration.
In the other direction, bonds bought when their yields are low will see their value in the market decline if yields begin to rise, because investors will pay less for them than for the new bonds that will give them a higher yield.
The Brits are famously obsessed with their mortgages--before the credit crunch, it was impossible to attend a British dinner party without someone gloating about the staggering rise in the value of his or her home--but 2008 put a damper on such pretensions.
Investors worry that the banks will look for ways to obscure the true value of their holdings, in the hope that prices rise before their cover is blown.
Another beneficial effect is that American employers with defined-benefit pension plans for employees have been able to reduce their contributions into pension funds as the rise in share prices has swollen the value of funds' assets.
"A rise in the value of the renminbi (yuan) would be unlikely to have much, if any, effect on aggregate employment in the United States, " he added.
Japan has looked on in alarm as the rise in the value of the yen is impacting Japanese exports and threatens to choke off any hope of economic recovery.
She plans to keep holding them in the hopes that the market will recover and their value will rise.
It is not hard to see demand growth being dragged down at the start of next year by a planned rise in value-added tax in Germany and budgetary tightening in Italy.
Perhaps this shock will give rise to a new economic model in the West in which liberty and environmental sustainability have measurable value, to counteract our current infatuation with material wealth.
Those who held tight saw the value of their holdings rise later in the year, as municipalities continued to make interest and principal payments.
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Meanwhile, the rise in the value of collateral, such as property, increases the willingness of banks to lend.
Which brings us back to the ECB, which rejected interest-rate cuts despite a sharp, counter-inflationary rise in the value of the euro against the dollar and the pound.
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