Word: dollarization
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...great country must have a strong currency.' NICOLAS SARKOZY, President of France, during a visit to Beijing to lobby Chinese leaders to let their country's currency, the yuan, appreciate. The relative weakness of the yuan against the euro and the dollar stymies European and American exports to China by making them more expensive...
...actually support the price hike. They argue that the original system encouraged women to use more expensive brand-name drugs at government expensive when cheaper generics would be just as effective. Moreover, some dismiss concerns over the price increase as insignificant, claiming that a mere 40 or 50 dollar price jump for monthly oral contraception does not constitute a significant portion of a college student’s budget. Both of these arguments, however, ignore the crucial fact that the health of women is at stake; many women, both college students and otherwise, could only afford to buy birth control...
...HAVEN, Conn.—Students glimpse it briefly: the cracked sidewalks and Family Dollar, the mural advertising the pawn shop that accepts gold, electronics—what it takes to make it from one week to the next...
...their demands are not without reason, even if they lack proletarian appeal. Of course writers deserve a cut of whatever profits are made in streaming video. Of course it’s outrageous that they receive only one third of a cent per dollar of royalties—they’re certainly justified in asking for two thirds of a cent. And I do understand that this is a “matter of survival” for the WGA’s less famous members, whose condition is so similar to my own: untalented, unemployed, and unpaid...
...OPEC summit in Riyadh in mid-November to say they could up production at any time. But that raises the pesky question of why they don't. So far, the answer from OPEC leaders has been that high prices are the fault of speculators and the falling dollar, not low production. They're not just blowing smoke. Lynn Westfall, chief economist of refiner Tesoro Corp., says there's more than enough oil for sale right now. The price pressure, he explains, "is coming from financial participants in futures markets...