Brits redeeming greenbacks for gold, setting off the bank run that killed Bretton Woods.
Pascarella's push to supplant greenbacks is as much a defensive move as an offensive foray.
The country possesses more than enough greenbacks to buy in the entire peso monetary base.
The U.S. dollar index was lower again Wednesday, as the fresh printing of greenbacks is bearish.
Argentina's economy was largely dollarised: 70% of bank deposits and 79% of loans were in greenbacks.
But all in all, most of the funds have stayed as they began as greenbacks.
In the late 1960s we began printing too many greenbacks, which resulted in inflation, sending commodities, including oil, upward.
The result could be devastating: Greenbacks would depreciate quickly, forcing even other oil-rich countries to switch to more stable currencies.
Some of the world's wealthiest are going green, spending their own greenbacks to protect the environment and fight global warming.
They also held on to greenbacks, stashing them in dollar bank accounts.
In Myanmar, cash is king, queen and ace, and your greenbacks best be squeaky-clean and creaseless (local kyat notes bear more scars).
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The 2013 show, which ends Sunday, puts greenbacks first and green second.
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This tendency of their customers to pay with greenbacks and resist bulging credit card debt also represents one big advantage for immigrant-oriented entrepreneurs.
The U.S. dollar index traded lower Thursday, in part due to the news of the central banks injecting greenbacks into the European financial system.
"The demand really is there, " says Craig Seeman, a Brooklyn producer and editor, who supervised the project and had hundreds of people using Greenbacks.
The new plan would be ostensibly printing of greenbacks by the Fed and would be raw-commodity market bullish, including bullish for gold and silver markets.
When they become available in physical form, Russian savers may start hedging their currency exposure, by stuffing their mattresses with euros as well as greenbacks.
It also holds billions of greenbacks in its foreign cash reserves.
But great wealth doesn't always correspond to great understanding of money--Gates and Winfrey are successful because of other talents, not necessarily because they really grok greenbacks.
The U.S. Dollar Index is near an all-time low, and the Federal Reserve is preparing another round of quantitative easing, flooding the world with even more greenbacks.
Through currency rates, it makes it harder for those nations to sell their wares because their money goes up in value when U.S. greenbacks come rushing in.
Despite having shaved off greenbacks from its all-electric sedan's price tag, it appears business isn't going as well as hoped for EV-maker Coda Automotive.
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Easy, if you could get greenbacks at the subsidized import rate of 1, 750 rials to the dollar and resell them at the market rate of 8, 000 to the dollar.
All the US needs to do is print more greenbacks: Buy dollar-denominated commodities and goods with dollars and debt, and service the dollar-denominated debt with dollars and more debt.
Throughout the morning on Thursday men carried bags and boxes of gold and satchels of greenbacks from the federal vaults at the Subtreasury to the various banks approved by Cortelyou.
Not only were they hit by thoughts that a recession in Europe would ding demand, but being valued in greenbacks made the goods become more costly as the dollar rose.
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That reinvestment is flooding global financial markets with greenbacks.
As the economy teetered at the edge of the abyss Helicopter Ben flew into action, flooding the planet with liquidity determined to smother any hint of demon deflation under mountains of fresh greenbacks.
Plastering institutional investors with low-interest greenbacks raises the price of assets notably stocks and real estate creating high incomes for wealthy taxpayers that can then fill the coffers of these states.
On Thursday, the European Central Bank said it will lend U.S. dollars to euro-area banks to make sure they are supplied with enough greenbacks through the rest of 2011, according to several news reports.
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