Word: dollarization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When rumors that the new Roosevelt Administration would devalue the dollar led to widespread flight from dollars into gold, the Fed raised the discount rate, setting the scene for the nationwide bank holiday proclaimed by President Franklin Roosevelt on March 6, 1933, two days after his Inauguration - a "holiday" from which 2,500 banks never returned...
...leaders, said parents of children who dropped their pants were among the most avid supporters of the ban. City spokeswoman Rose Anne Brown admits she wasn't among them. Legislating morality doesn't make sense, she said, though she acknowledges the law could work and wishes she "had a dollar for every time we made Torrey [her youngest son, now 25] pull his pants up when he was growing...
Federal loans aren't completely unaffected. While Stafford loans, which are made directly to students and don't take into account credit history, were up in the second quarter compared to a year ago, loans made to parents through the Parent PLUS program have plummeted - down 29% in dollar volume year-over-year, according to Department of Education data analyzed by Kantrowitz...
Then consider the wealth effect, much debated but empirically documented, which suggests that every dollar of increased household wealth will, over a period of time, convert to 3 to 5 cents of spending. Calculators, please: 0.03 times $1.2 trillion equals $3.6 billion in spending. In an economy that is two-thirds consumer spending, that's another growth driver. One other thing about the wealth effect is that it works splendidly in reverse too. There's the prospect that Broun and his colleagues could be serving up a double whammy to households across the country: declining stock market wealth in addition...
...among large, medium and small stocks, bonds and some cash in safe short-term securities. It's more important now than ever before to include in this mix some foreign stocks and bonds. If this crisis deepens, the costs could prove so staggering to the U.S. government that the dollar might plunge or interest rates might rise. Foreign holdings won't be immune to such fallout. But they will at least offer a buffer. "Give up the ability to hit a home run to make sure you don't strike out," says Dan Moisand, a financial planner in Melbourne...