On one point, there is consensus: there will be no recovery without a degree of currency stability.
The gold-based Bretton Woods monetary system provided the currency stability necessary for the resumption of international trade.
So add it all up, and Paulson is only 1 for 2 on the two most important economic and stock market issues of the day: trade and currency stability.
Currency stability, job security and better economic prospects.
"I've made it very clear that there are real potential benefits of membership of the euro, particularly for manufacturing industry in terms of things like currency stability, transparency of costs and simplification of the trading regime, " she said.
However, the technical goal of monetary reform should be to increase the general level of currency stability, the predictability of currency variations, and the opportunities of market players to access the best currency, so that the end result is increased economic productivity.
The problem, however, is that policymakers may not want to make their domestic monetary policies subject to formal exchange-rate targets for the sake of global currency-market stability.
Mr Jospin came to power last June on a hard-left, Euro-hesitant programme promising the creation of 350, 000 public-sector jobs, a cut in the working week from 39 to 35 hours without loss of pay, big increases in wages and social benefits, a halt to privatisation, a rise in the wealth tax, a rejection of the single currency's stability pact and so on.
That growth often leads to government stability, currency strength and increased corporate profits, resulting in stock price appreciation and investment gains.
Look into everything from the stability of the currency to the growth potential of the property market.
It is generally accepted that commodity price trends mark the stability of the currency in which they are denominated.
Kan said excessive currency moves can harm financial stability and that he hopes the Bank of Japan will take appropriate monetary policy steps, according to a Reuters report.
The Federal Reserve and Treasury may face a hard choice between domestic economic recovery and responsible stewardship of the world's global reserve currency and hence global financial stability.
Slovenia's concern, beside a fear of re-colonisation by neighbours after only ten years as an independent country, was the stability of its currency in the face of large capital inflows or outflows.
The World Bank was established in 1944, at a conference on postwar reconstruction in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where representatives of more than forty nations agreed to create two new institutions: the International Monetary Fund, which was charged with guaranteeing stability in global currency markets, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which was charged with raising money for the rebuilding of Europe.
The first option reinforces the precedent of backing the stability of the common currency at any bailout cost but ignores the rise of German bailout fatigue in an election year, while the second option threatens to break that hard-fought stability apart.
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But both Germany and the ECB are against such a move, arguing that the central bank's mandate is to ensure price stability and not to manage currency markets.
While the government has managed to achieve relative financial stability through the introduction of the currency board and the economy itself grew at a robust 5.8 percent in 2000, daily life remains difficult for many average Bulgarians.
It worried partly that unauthorised investors were playing in India's markets, but also about the effect of hedge-fund investments on the rupee and financial stability: huge inflows push a currency up, but also make it vulnerable to collapse if the money rushes out again.
These issues include the state of the global economy, implementing the framework agreement for strong, sustainable and balanced growth, facilitating job creation, reforming the currency and financial regulation and supervision systems, stability on global energy markets, stimulating international development, strengthening multilateral trade, and countering corruption.
He also noted that the Group of 20 leading industrial nations had pledged not to undertake competitive currency devaluations as such action undermines economic and financial stability.
While buffeted at times by Europe's deficit and currency woes, an overall perception of growing economic stability was a major reason Obama defeated GOP challenger Mitt Romney in November by more than 4 million votes.
Second, the country that issues the reserve currency faces a trade-off between domestic and international stability.
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In particular, it failed to increase further the lending capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), the single currency's rescue fund.
Under the terms of the deal, this supervisory body will oversee the eurozone's banks and use the single currency area's rescue funds, the European Financial Stability Facility or European Stability Mechanism, to aid banks directly without adding to governments' debt.
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However, that objective (price stability) is more credibly attainable under a convertible currency than a pure fiat money.
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The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) is considering issuing foreign currency, yuan, bonds.
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BCV's objectives price stability and the maintenance of the value of the currency.
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