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.
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.
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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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
After World War II, the U. S. dollar replaced gold as the reserve currency because of the dominance of the United States in the world economy.
Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets.
If we import more than we export, as we are wont to do, dollar balances will build up abroad and be available for more exports from the United States.
The big driver of the U.S. dollar against the CAD today though was commodity related as crude oil Inventories in the United States showed a surprise jump of 400K barrels.
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Outside the United States, the volume of cash moved in 2012 increased 23.5 percent on a U.S. dollar basis.
Amid all the sturm und drang, one rarely hears a compelling argument for the dollar retaining its status as a dominant currency particularly given the fiscally-precarious position of the United States.
Bristol-Myers also said in its letter to Icahn on Thursday that it "has no intention of agreeing to any modifications" to the rights it holds to Erbitux, ImClone's billion-dollar colon cancer drug, which is jointly marketed by the two companies in Canada and the United States.
Now Beckham is in New York to play in the All-Star Game for Major League Soccer, the upstart outfit he joined in 2007 with wildly exaggerated rumors of a quarter-billion-dollar contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy and expectations he would glamorize an underappreciated sport in the United States.
There will come a time when the dollar is not the only reserve currency, when foreign governments will not depend so heavily on the United States for their own prosperity, thus will be less forgiving in regards to our self-serving economic policies.
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