Now, it is clear why: He believes it is possible and desirable to link the dollar and the euro by bureaucratic fiat (pun most certainly intended) simply by having the U.S. Treasury fix the exchange rate between the dollar and the euro by decree.
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Governments should fix the exchange rate based on gold or economic performances.
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But he has also mooted a new effort to fix the exchange rate (since January, the peso has plunged from par with the dollar to around 3.20 this week).
On Feb. 9, Suharto told a meeting of Muslim clerics that the country will soon fix a certain exchange rate for the rupiah.
If the economic problems of the middle class are employment-based, therefore, it is unlikely that the additional revenue generated by the tax rate increase will fix this problem, especially in the short term.
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He is speaking of plots against Indonesia and ordering a military clampdown on unrest, while pinning his economic hopes on a controversial plan to fix the rupiah's exchange rate.
The alternative would be to send physicians their payments at the reduced rate and then, should Congress ultimately fix the problem, ask physicians to bill CMS for the difference and then cut additional checks to cover the shortfall.
"That's somebody who we would try ... because they were current before the adjustment, to go back to that original rate, and fix it at that for the rest of the term, " del Rio says.
The bank's forecasts imply that so deep a cut would be excessive, since it would leave inflation above the 2.0% target at the two-year horizon on which the rate-setters fix their gaze.
The latest uptick in the unemployment rate makes clear that the tactic has failed to fix the jobs crisis, with good reason: instead of lending to businesses and supporting entrepreneurial activity, banks are stuffing much of the extra cash into their mattresses to beef up their balance sheets.
It has increased its rhetoric about the need for China to fix its exchange rate.
Smaller countries would then be free to fix their exchange rate to any one of the gold backed currencies.
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But this is not to say that either version of the fix-at-all-costs approach resolves the dilemmas inherent in the choice of exchange-rate regime.
Getting a fix for BubbleBoy and his ilk should rate as the top concern for most Microsoft customers right now.
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John McMain is not going for a quick fix, but wants to the see the corporate tax rate cut from 35% to 25% and a permanent tax credit for businesses' research and development.
"If you fix a lot of those problems, you can bring the tax rate on corporations down, " says Furman.
Various attempts to fix one European currency against each other, such as the Exchange Rate Mechanism, crumbled in the face of divergent economic performances in the countries concerned.
This time HHS pretended Congress wouldn't pass such a "doc fix, " a fake assumption that yields an artificially lower reimbursement rate for the insurers in Advantage.
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While all this craziness proliferates, the unemployment rate in many countries is prolonged, a miserable setting with no fast fix coming.
Ohio's 10.1% unemployment rate is the ninth worst in the country and his promise in 2006 to fix the economy has fallen flat.
At this rate, Boeing is going to run out of space to store them so the pressure to fix the 787 batteries is overwhelming.
Mr Browne said the BBA, which was in charge of collating the data used to set Libor - a key bank lending rate which became discredited after revelations of manipulation by banks - would do everything it could to fix the issue.
The overhaul--separate from the AMT fix--would increase standard deductions, double earned income tax credits for some and lower the top corporate marginal tax rate from 35% to 30.5%.
"I don't think that many of those people have made permanent decisions, " Ryan said, adding that the answer to that question depends on whether the city is able to fix many of its problems -- among them a weakened infrastructure, a high murder rate and limited career growth opportunities.
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