So far, unlike Fiat, it has not been held back by such rigidities.
Speak of colonial fiat: It was the Pax Britannica that drew the Durand Line of 1892 across the lands of the Pashtuns and marked out a meaningless border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Rather than lancing the boil of systemic risk that he inherited, Obama has pumped it full of fiat money and protected it with a bodyguard of regulations.
Fiat boasts that it has not lost an hour to strikes in 14 years.
With a fiat dollar, it is impossible for A and B to know exactly what, in terms of real value, will be repaid.
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Unlike a fiat currency where it can be produced out of thin air, gold takes 1 ton of rock for each ounce and is becoming harder to find.
While that may be a reason to acquire a certain amount of government fiat currency, it is a transitory value because in the end it is still based on a State-sanctioned illusion.
Hugely ambitious, he modelled the firm on two Italian giants: Fiat, because it was a family firm that had grown huge from a strong domestic base, and Olivetti, for its technological innovation.
Sceptics believe that Chrysler has lost most of its product-development talent and question whether a small-car specialist like Fiat can give it the kind of vehicles it needs to win back market share in America, which accounts for 80% of its sales.
In December, Opel said it would end car production at its Bochum manufacturing plant in Germany in 2016, with the loss of up to 3, 300 jobs at the factory, plus many more with suppliers, while Fiat has said it will cut 1, 500 jobs at its plant in Tychy in Poland.
The longer the term of a transaction, the greater the risk associated with doing it with fiat dollars.
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Mr Marchionne wants to align it with Fiat's other premium brands, such as Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and Maserati.
The resulting reading for h will be fixed by fiat and, with it, the Planck-related definition of the kilogram.
Secondly, its role as an alternative to fiat currencies will keep it underpinned, particularly if there is any bearish news on that front.
GM, with its partner Fiat (in which it owns a one-fifth stake), was originally favourite to snap up Daewoo, though its bid is understood to have been much lower than Ford's.
Without it, Fiat would be in dire straits.
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In their disdain for that Iraq project, the Democrats and the liberal left had insisted that Iraq was an artificial state put together by colonial fiat, and that it was a fool's errand to try to make it whole and intact.
Chrysler was close to liquidation in 2009 when the U.S. government guided it through bankruptcy and turned it over to Fiat.
While Chrysler sold 43, 000 tiny Fiat 500s in 2012, it sold over 470, 000 Jeeps, vaulting the iconic brand to No. 1 in the SUV market.
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Investors piled into Fiat shares in the belief it would be easier for the group to sell its loss-making car manufacturer once the founder's grandson was no longer at the helm.
After confirming that, in the absence of congressional authorization, he lacked the authority to give what amounts to an amnesty to young illegal aliens, President Obama went ahead and declared it by executive fiat.
So if the best rationale for fiat currency is the flexibility it affords government in times of peril, then their prescription should be that we should only unhinge the dollar from gold in rough waters.
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Plus, to his credit, he seems to understand that the battle with the bottle is not something that can be decreed by autocratic fiat, but rather that it is going to have to be a long, drawn-out (boring) campaign if it is ever to be effective.
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Chrysler has entered bankruptcy, from which it may emerge under Fiat's control (see article).
Fiat needs to make sure that it does not repeat the mistakes that were made in DaimlerChrysler's so-called merger of equals, though.
It led eventually to Fiat, where his first job was sorting out the sale of a machine-tool subsidiary in the early 1960s.
Balrik Singh Dhesi was driving the car towards Kettering when it collided with the Fiat Punto, which was travelling in the opposite direction.
Imagine that I take a picture of a new Fiat 500 through Instagram and posted it to my Facebook timeline along with my text.
They have in effect written off part of this loan, tacitly admitting that Fiat will be unable to repay it when it comes due in 2005.
So, you know, the American public, I think, doesn't understand that Toyota, Honda, Ford are the domestic ones, and it appears as though Fiat, Chrysler and - which is now Chrysler...
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