If the euro story were confined to Germany, the shared 17-member currency unit would be a keeper.
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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The Swiss franc has rallied over the recent quarters as just about the sole European alternative to the 17-nation single currency unit whose weaker deficit-ridden nations have raised angst for the euro.
And in dollar terms, given the loss of productivity suffered by the Brazilian economy given substantial appreciation in their currency, unit labor costs have grown by 110% since 2005. (Read No Credit Bubble In Brazil, Just Dangerous Consumer Debt Burden).
Still, that's between three and 70 Big Digs, to use our local unit of currency.
The second is a unit of currency, which has varying purchasing power depending on where it is spent and what it is spent on.
Indeed, the new lower tax rates affect every dollar, or unit of currency, and every economic decision throughout the whole world regarding whether to invest in America, start or expand businesses here, create jobs here, even work here, because all these decisions will be based on the new lower tax rates.
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The decline, the company said, was driven by falling unit sales and currency rate shifts during the quarter.
Each unit of Terra currency would be charged each year a transaction fee of 3.5% to 4%, assessed against the face value of the currency, depreciating its backing by that amount.
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Restaurants International grew system sales 13%, prior to foreign currency translation, including new-unit growth of 7%.
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On January 1st 1999 the currencies of 11 countries were fixed against a new currency, the euro, which became the unit of reckoning in wholesale financial markets.
In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall receive testimony from such witnesses and take such other evidence as it deems appropriate and shall consider recommendations for legislation, with respect to the need, means, and schedule for establishing a metallic-based monetary unit to serve as a contingency currency for the Commonwealth.
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Worse, with consumer prices sticky in concert with commodity prices that are most sensitive to dollar-price movements, the beneficiaries of the money illusion tend to be the hard, unproductive assets of yesterday (think housing, art, rare stamps, and oil) that are least vulnerable to currency weakness, and which in fact do best when the unit of account is devalued.
The gold standard, where a dollar is defined by a weight unit of gold, will enable people to use the same currency at a secured value.
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, a unit of the Treasury Department, in March issued guidelines that said virtual currency exchanges are subject to the same comprehensive anti-money-laundering requirements as traditional money-transmission businesses such as Western Union Co.
Spanish employment data, hedge fund selling, and political rhetoric over a strong single unit causing economic problems are only some of the issues that this 17-member currency club is dealing with this morning.
SAFE, a unit of the central bank, said the new rules were intended to strengthen the control of foreign currency entering the country.
The currency itself is meandering along, the way it is supposed to, without any particular issues, serving as a unit of account and means of payment.
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