Pooled information, often in the form of personal opinions and reviews, is a freely traded currency, a form of entertainment in itself.
It is talking about adopting the euro in 2002, the year the currency takes physical form.
And on top of blocking bank withdrawals and imposing capital controls Greece would also face the massive problems of introducing a new currency in the form of new coins and notes and procedures.
Absent a common currency in the form of the dollar, the U.S. would still be a rich country, but far less vibrant for all the wasted effort necessary to facilitate interstate trade given 50 different floating money concepts.
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's exporters from automobiles to tech and optics -- has arrived in the form of currency devaluation.
Note: The government will very likely step in long before Facebook credits become a ubiquitous form of currency.
If Bitcoin replaced credit cards, it would not actually be a currency bit just another form of credit.
If you shift over to the world of casual games, cheats are even more of an overt form of currency.
Among its reasons was that Indonesia's banking system is not as sophisticated as Hong Kong's, which has a form of currency board.
Precious metals should be viewed as just another form of currency.
So people were actually keeping money in the form of currency.
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Here's what he suggests: The U.S. dollar, the euro and the Japanese yen (with, perhaps, China's yuan and Britain's pound) would form a currency bloc.
Zynga and Facebook engaged in a five-year-long commitment in May, agreeing that Facebook Credits would be the exclusive form of currency used for all Zynga games hosted on Facebook.
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For other companies, the shares issued in China could be used as a form of currency to provide performance-linked pay to local employees, as well as to buy Chinese companies.
Though Blair declined to put odds on the potential for a break-up, he said he thinks leaders will do what it takes to ensure the survival of the currency in its present form.
Those remarks seem to run counter to recent statements from the European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, who last week said the ECB would do whatever it takes to keep the Euro currency in its present form.
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Bitcoin is fundamentally an idea about how a new form of stateless currency could operate.
BerkShares are a form of local currency developed in the Berkshire region of Massachusetts two years ago.
Whether all-out currency wars (in the form of trade protection) will emerge in 2011 is harder to tell.
Currency ETFs - Most currency ETFs are in the form of grantor trusts.
The former is considered by many to be a form of global currency while the latter tends to track its price at a fraction of the cost.
Disruption, they say, could be minimised by converting all euro contracts to a modified form of the European Currency Unit, the basket of national currencies that preceded the euro.
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There are two great examples in history of governments that got out of huge debt commitments without either defaulting or devaluing the currency, which is essentially another form of default.
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Considering this new landscape, and the flaws in the plan to save the euro, some brave souls may even say that it is no longer even in the UK's long-term interest for the single currency to survive in its current form.
So long as credit exists, in whatever form and based on whatever currency, credit fraud will exist.
Bitcoin, a decentralized digital currency, has become an increasingly popular form of payment since its inception nearly four years ago.
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In Africa, fourteen countries use a euro currency board, and another three countries use another form of euro peg.
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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.
Rather than looking for constructive ways of enabling some countries to exit from the single currency, they are committed to preserving it in the form in which it exists now.
The Senator went on to tell the States of Jersey, in response to Constable Mezbourian's question that the note will form an important part of the new family of currency.
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