The fund seeks to earn current income reflective of money market rates in China available to foreign investors, and to provide exposure to movements in the Chinese Yuan relative to the United States dollar.
Every extra dollar of current account deficit incurred by the United States is another dollar that has to be funded by foreigners.
The United States has frozen dollar transactions of Saderat, which is one of Iran's big banks, and has also has been lobbying the Europeans to blacklist Iranian companies which the U.S. says is involved in pro-terrorist financing.
In the long run, we have to pay for our imports with exports although that discipline works more directly on other countries than it does on the United States since the Dollar is a reserve currency that foreigners are willing to hold and use.
Such a settlement would remove Moscow from the restrictive provisions of the Johnson Debt Default Act of 1934, thereby permitting the Soviet issuance of bonds and other debt instruments in the United States and on a dollar-denominated basis.
Worse yet, the balance shifts even more decidedly in the Soviets' favor if, as a result of this settlement, Moscow can begin issuing bonds and other debt instruments in the United States and on a dollar-denominated basis off-shore.
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The fiscally decentralized United States, under the common dollar of Alexander Hamilton, operated under these classic checks and balances for many prosperous decades.
The United States takes advantage of the dollar's position to borrow cheaply from the rest of the world, selling its assets in return for goods.
Principal concerns include (1) whether the negotiated settlement will adequately compensate bondholders and U.S. taxpayers, and (2) whether enabling the Soviets to enter the U.S. bond market is worth the pennies on the dollar the United States is likely to obtain in such a settlement.
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The cost of the embargo to the United States is high in both dollar and moral terms, but it is higher for the Cuban people, who are cut off from the supposed champion of liberty in their hemisphere because of an antiquated Cold War dispute.
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Its 20-month high against the dollar makes exports from the Eurozone countries more expensive when they arrive in the United States and countries whose currencies are linked to the dollar.
The monopoly of the dollar in the United States was achieved by taxing private and state currencies out of existence in the 19th century.
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American citizens are equivalent to the shareholders of the biggest corporation in the world, the United States Government a multitrillion dollar conglomerate, and a real dinosaur.
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More broadly, in the United States, for example, the dollar made artificially expensive by capital inflows related in part to its reserve currency status has prevented the exchange rate adjustment needed to balance our trade in goods and services.
One PPP dollar is equal to 1 US dollar spent in the United States.
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These have been pegged to the dollar and indexed to United States' inflation, even though prices have been falling in Argentina for the past five years.
Comparing the global sales figures released yesterday with the U.S. sales figures released last month reveals that all but one of these medicines won most of its dollar sales in the United States.
By implication, so are the myriad multi-billion dollar initiatives intended by the United States and other G-7 nations to "help" Yeltsin.
That might help to boost demand for imports, narrowing China's multibillion-dollar trade surplus with the United States, a chronic source of tension.
Obama said that in the United States, women earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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In the industrial heartland of Ontario and Quebec, the American descent into recession is an additional worry on top of the pain in the car and lumber industries, which export to the United States and were already suffering from a strong Canadian dollar and weaker demand south of the border.
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For dollar-denominated debt (such as United States Treasury bonds and mortgages), adjust world interest rates for changes in U.S. inflation.
The dollar is not the answer because the United States can no longer be counted upon to be fiscally or financially responsible.
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For succour, Mr de la Rua and Argentina must look abroad, and pray that a slowing economy in the United States will lead to lower international interest rates and a weaker dollar to which Argentina's overvalued currency is pegged.
On Monday, Malpass will be our guest on Intelligent Investing, sitting down for a lengthy discussion with Steve Forbes about spending reform, the strength of the dollar and how to get investment capital back into the United States.
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At least, if everyone was taking the law seriously, some recently issued US dollar coins would be illegal to own or use inside the United States.
China, the world's largest holder of US debt, had "every right now to demand the United States address its structural debt problems and ensure the safety of China's dollar assets, " said a commentary in the official Xinhua news agency.
Fantasy football was played offline for years until the advent of the Internet rocket-launched it in the late 1990s from a niche hobby to a multimillion-dollar industry reaching 30 million online players last year in the United States and Canada.
Mr Karzai made the offer despite the multi-million dollar bounty offered for the militant leader's capture by the United States.
Another loophole is used by companies: in a market known as blue-chip swaps, they buy dollar-denominated sovereign bonds in pesos, transferring them to the United States where they sell them for dollars.
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