Just as a floating foot and minute would lead to a lot of building and cooking errors, floating money would and does foster a great deal of malinvestment and trade disharmony for turning voluntary, economy-enhancing exchange with stable money as the measuring stick into something where trading partners are increasingly at odds.
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To answer these fears, there has been an explosion in funds that specialize in bank loans (aka floating rate loans), including BlackRock Senior Floating Rate (BFRCX), RS Floating Rate (RSFLX) and Neuberger Berman Floating Rate (NFIAX).
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Diana Damrau is a stunning Gilda, her soprano blooming with clarity and warmth, the floating and spinning notes on the top the embodiment of both her innocence and her awakening passion.
The disorders run the gamut from panic attacks and specific phobias to obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, a random kind of worry described as free-floating and relentless.
Financial markets are extremely efficient at capturing every scrap of information and opinion floating around in the marketplace, and incorporating it directly into the going price of bonds, shares and just about anything else that can be easily traded.
How the court rules could affect not only homeowners and casinos but floating restaurants, warehouses and fish-processing plants.
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Her parents were both killed but she was later found, safe and well, floating in her pram and was raised by grandparents.
It is an ancient-looking room, with a gleaming floor buffed by many feet for many years, its low willow-branch ceiling and beams brightly painted and hung with banners, the walls depicting floating Buddhas and snarling, dark-faced demons.
But the bulk of its millions have been derived from underwriting and floating huge security issues.
Mexico was reforming at the time, basically privatizing the banking sector and floating the exchange rate.
Many economists were content to see the floating and fall of the real, which was indeed overvalued.
Special software is required to use the viewer, and Floating Images is in serious discussions with several videogame companies.
The lower notes of his saxophone embody a powerful, penetrating edge, while the upper ones can be floating and fragile.
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The innovation is in the engineering of a racking system and floating structure that can accommodate water rising and falling.
The example I have in mind now is my study of the international adjustment mechanisms under fixed and floating exchange rates.
The skydiving attraction, called RipCord, uses a powerful wind flow to keep participants aloft while floating and spinning over an outdoor deck.
The most startling aspect of the proposed deal: Bucksbaum is funding the deal almost entirely by debt, much of it short term and floating rate.
Japan reinstated a gold standard in 1871, 1897, 1930 and 1949, each time after extended periods of a floating currency and sometimes hyperinflation.
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Yet Pierre Moscovici, the French finance minister, last week surprised many by speaking of federalism and floating an intriguing idea: a Europe-wide unemployment-insurance fund.
Take, for example, one indicator of the market's appetite for risk, the spread between swaps of fixed- and floating-rate interest payments (see chart).
If you don't want to take much risk and want a decent income, Libor and floating rates may be the place to go for it.
Kneeling close, you could see how deceptively alive the shell-y mud was: It harbored whole scuttling ecologies of oyster-drill snails, tiny shrimp and crabs, and floating egg cases.
This process is what stops the cream from separating again and floating to the top while milk sits on a grocery store shelf or in your fridge.
Many are now looking hard at Japan, following the success of Ripplewood and Christopher Flowers in buying Shinsei Bank out of bankruptcy, cleaning it up and floating it.
And around these we had shifting opinions and floating voters.
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Another reason demand for the long bond has been so voracious is that a lot of investment banks still use them to hedge their corporate-bond positions and interest-rate swaps (between fixed- and floating-rate obligations).
It involves both understanding math and floating-point representation.
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Matching up against Chelsea's diamond formation, with Rooney floating and Antonio Valencia pushed up against left back Ashley Cole, United stifled their opponents' rhythm and just had the better of a keenly fought first half.
He cannot resist making sideswipes at business theorists, telling anecdotes that put him in a heroic light and floating impractical radical ideas (such as loyalty premiums on dividends paid to shareholders as an incentive for long-term investment).
Some economies would be hurt, but overall most emerging economies are in better shape than a couple of years ago, with large foreign-exchange reserves, and floating, not fixed exchange rates, making it easier for economies to adjust.
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