When crisis hits, fear of devaluation could spark a rush out of bank deposits into cash, and from cash into hard currency.
Given the strategic importance of energy and the large-scale hard currency cash flow it could generate, the importance of democratic and free market reforms being irreversible in place prior to such assistance cannot be overstated.
Less than 60 hours into the euro's life as a cash currency, and there is hardly a Deutschmark around.
Right now, the company is all fun and games, but the prospect of a focused Twitter with billions of dollars in cash and a public currency should scare the hell out of everyone.
And cash, today's currency of choice, is a remarkably cheap commodity thanks to low interest rates and abundant liquidity.
In addition to subscription fees, players will be offered the ability to pay real life cash for digital currency and items.
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Frills include hand-delivered cash and foreign currency, and tailored loans.
For the jet setting crowd, the account also assesses no fees on international cash transfers and foreign currency conversions.
World bosses have truckloads of hit points so it can take days before they go down, but rewards include truckloads of gold, gems (cash shop currency), and incredibly rare monsters.
"The ability to use cash and trade credits as currency is a powerful tool and SCEE recognizes that it provides a new channel for gamers to access and purchase exclusive digital content, " said Mike Mauler, GameStop's executive vice president of international.
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And going forward into a world of little economic growth, where money printing and debasing the currency is the standard, I only want to own companies that consistently grow free cash and use that cash to shrink the float.
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Impoverished North Korea is widely accused of engaging in a range of illicit activities to raise hard cash, including drug smuggling, currency counterfeiting and arms trafficking.
If Beijing opens the currency wall and the markets are not ready, flows of investment cash could and probably will lead to a catastrophe.
To speed things along, banks and even shops will probably receive lots of euros in advance, so that cash machines and tills can spout the new currency exclusively from January 1st 2002.
September's pilot program eases these hassles by allowing companies that generate substantial foreign currency within China to consolidate that cash into a single pool and sweep it overseas where treasurers can manage it the way they manage cash generated by their business in other countries.
With currency and stock markets continuing to produce uncertain returns, people with disposable cash are more likely to bet on gems.
Last week Mark Zuckerberg acquired the photo-sharing app for 1% of his company 30% in cash and 70% in pre-IPO Facebook currency.
The M1 is a very liquid measure of the money supply, as it contains cash and assets that can quickly be converted to currency.
CO2 is our currency rather than cash, so people raising sponsorship can set targets and their friends can see what tangible contribution their supporting action is having, both individually and collectively.
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When their funding dried up after the Lehman Brothers collapse, the banks found themselves short of cash, and the Icelandic central bank had little foreign currency to offer them.
Its use as a means of exchange is also getting easier: an increasing number of online retailers take the currency, and new smartphone apps make Bitcoins almost as easy to use as cash.
Indeed, a hard currency cash flow analysis of the Soviet Union showed clearly that Western public and private sector financial institutions were responsible for funding, on an annual basis, the equivalent of virtually 100% of the hard currency costs of the Soviet external empire.
For some reason, they prefer informal channels, such as Internet-based firms that accept cash offshore and issue friends and relatives back in Zimbabwe with local currency or vouchers for supermarkets.
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In addition, a bigger proportion of deals are being paid for in cash, a currency which managers tend to harbour more prudently than shares and which is a less forgiving measuring rod.
The truth of the matter is that, if the Soviets genuinely need and want American agricultural products grain, they have the hard currency on hand to pay cash-on-the-barrel for it.
The complaint against one of the Dominican Republic gang members allegedly involved in the theft states that thousands of dollars' worth of stolen cash was deposited into two Liberty Reserve accounts via currency centers based in Siberia and Singapore.
Two months ago I wandered into a Schwab office and asked to apply for the card to cash in on its no foreign-currency transaction fees policy before an overseas vacation.
Unlike urban middle-class families on the main island of Java, these farmers have benefited from the collapse of Indonesia's currency, since that raised the nominal value of cash crops such as coffee, palm oil and rubber.
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Anyone who scans much online technology journalism will know that snarky opinion pieces and cheap reviews - offered to readers for nothing - are its common currency so asking for cash to support heavyweight reporting seemed optimistic to say the least.
Typically, governments hold cash reserves in their central bank as foreign exchange reserves for the purpose of stabilizing currency and management of liquidity.
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