The last major experiment in Treasury control of currency was the Continental Dollar of 1776-1785.
"I think it will be difficult for them to control the currency, " said Anthony Nafte, a senior economist at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets in Hong Kong.
On 17 November, Yeltsin extended that control to include all remaining structures of the Soviet finance ministry, including its authority to control hard currency flows.
Hyperinflation involves price increases running out of control as a currency collapses in value.
Control over that list was inevitably a point of control for the currency as a whole.
They have surrendered control of the currency to an independent central bank that targets inflation, not the exchange rate.
Disputes over control of hard currency revenue streams and precious resources like oil, gas, gold, diamonds, platinum must be expected.
Instead, China has kept control over its currency and largely out of the hands of speculators, although this can never be done completely.
SAFE, a unit of the central bank, said the new rules were intended to strengthen the control of foreign currency entering the country.
But unlike European nations that socialized their currencies and cannot print euros on their own, Japan has complete control over its currency printing press.
Zimbabwe's cash-starved banks, and a central bank that has lost control of its currency, mirror challenges in other countries, including Greece, Malawi and Swaziland.
Because they have control of their currency and their debt, which is mostly in their own currency, they can devalue their way to a solution.
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Currency fluctuation, a lack of financial transparency, currency control regulation, and other characteristics of many emerging markets keep the less informed investor away from these markets.
And, sadly, because Italy no longer has control of its currency it cannot print money (ie, do quantitative easing) in order to stop the money supply falling.
He points out that when a private corporation is in control of a currency, there has to be trust in its ability to look after its customers' credit.
Tour operators and economists recommend that travellers visiting Greece should take extra cash in euros, just in case the country leaves the eurozone and returns to the drachma in an effort to regain control of its currency.
Further complicating the monitoring of oil revenues from Sonangol, the company assumed some time ago complete control of foreign currency receipts from the oil sector, and stopped channelling them through the central bank as mandated by the law.
Under a private system, the link between price deviation and correction is immediate and strong because supply is under the direct control of the currency issuers, who have the means through loan and trading operations to tightly clamp down on (or expand) the supply.
The first is that if you can issue more money as and when you want, which you can if you control your own currency, then if the banks of the financial system get into trouble then you can just print more money to help them out.
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The US Federal Reserve has a system to control the amount of currency in circulation.
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In effect, countries will be borrowing in a foreign currency without control of the printing presses.
Today, with inflation under control, a stabilised currency and an economy growing at a healthy rate, the outlook is rosier.
On Oct. 14 the Keidanren, Japan's main business federation, declared: "We in Japan strongly support the currency-control measures adopted by the Malaysian government" as necessary to stabilize the economy.
The Delors Report concluded that EMU could work if control of the single currency was kept from meddling politicians and left to independent technocrats at a European central bank, to be modelled on Germany's Bundesbank.
First of all, it cheapens the currency of arms control and international law to enter into treaties under utterly false pretenses.
Leo Melamed, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, took control in 1969 and introduced currency futures and the International Monetary Market to the exchange.
De La Rue will provide forecasts of the demand for cash but it is up to customers to control the supply of their currency.
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Less reliance on interest rates and currency appreciation to control inflation.
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It marked a cumulative loss of nearly 4 percent this week, after Egypt's central bank took steps in what bankers believe is an attempt to control the devaluation of the currency.
Forus was just one of a number of companies owned (directly or indirectly) by Berezovsky in Russia, Cyprus, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Ireland and the Caribbean to take control of the hard-currency revenues of several of Russia's biggest industrial companies.
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