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...exchange rates and lend reserve currencies to nations with trade deficits, the latter to provide underdeveloped nations with needed capital - although each institution's role has changed over time. Each of the 44 nations who joined the discussions contributed a membership fee, of sorts, to fund these institutions; the amount of each contribution designated a country's economic ability and dictated its number of votes...
...Bretton Woods system itself collapsed in 1971, when President Richard Nixon severed the link between the dollar and gold - a decision made to prevent a run on Fort Knox, which contained only a third of the gold bullion necessary to cover the amount of dollars in foreign hands. By 1973, most major world economies had allowed their currencies to float freely against the dollar. It was a rocky transition, characterized by plummeting stock prices, skyrocketing oil prices, bank failures and inflation...
...there's almost a boomtown feel in the capital, where a federal spending spree is rapidly driving the federal deficit to record heights. For the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, the gap between revenue collected by the government vs. what it spent was already lofty at $455 billion - an amount equal to nearly 7% of GDP, making it the largest deficit since the end of World...
...crammed with the drug: Sumseeds, a brand of caffeinated sunflower seeds, contain 120 mg of caffeine per packet, 16% more than in a typical 6-oz. serving of coffee. Shower Shock soap is designed to deliver a crackling 200 mg of caffeine when lathered into the skin, twice the amount in that same cup of coffee...
...Crimson Hexagon for use as a marketing tool. But King said he hopes that in the future, clients will be able to apply the technology more broadly—“from the microblog to the data warehouse.” “Every 15 minutes an amount of information appears on the Internet equivalent to all the information in the Library of Congress, and a lot of this is unstructured text,” he wrote. “There would appear to be many potential applications on the horizon...