What we have is a floating system: We don't maneuver, we don't adjust.
In the process, while all currencies are debased, the floating system is failing to perform its most elementary promise: absorbing international imbalances.
Once we pick a number, then sometimes the issue comes up of a transition period, from the present floating system to the initiation of the gold standard system.
This stimulates the body to grow little spikes on the artery walls called adhesion molecules that snare floating immune system cells and bring them into the artery wall.
An era of austerity, which the floating-rate system was designed to avoid, is going to occur after all.
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He also proposed offering buyouts to teachers who have been floating in the system for more than a year without permanent classroom positions.
But a floating-rate system is not a free lunch either.
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Analysts argue that revaluation is in order, a stance that received a boost last May when Kuwait de-pegged its dinar from the dollar, shifting to a floating basket exchange system.
The three key elements of this policy remained the adoption of a floating exchange rate system, the anchoring of monetary policy to the inflation target and the acceleration of banking sector reforms, he said.
Today the world uses a system of floating exchange rates based on "fiat" or government-created money.
The innovation is in the engineering of a racking system and floating structure that can accommodate water rising and falling.
It is conceivable that we might abandon a floating exchange-rate system, as the BRIC countries, especially China, are not as happy with today's system as many in the West are.
As a consequence, their proposed solutions do not address the underlying instability of the current system of floating paper currencies that bob about on foreign exchange markets whipped this way and that by forces that have little, if any correlation to the so-called underlying fundamentals.
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Planetary Resources plans to take rocks floating aimlessly in the solar system and turn them into valuable commodities.
He was one of the first people to predict, correctly, that a system of freely floating exchange rates, unconnected to gold, would work just fine.
And there is ample evidence that despite all the precautions and enforcement measures now in place, there is more and more dirty money floating in the international financial system now than ever before.
Now it seems it is too late to rescue the system of free-floating currencies.
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The firm is also developing an operating system--"floating windows"--that will allow PC users to "see through" overlapping computer windows.
All the while, Milton Friedman kept pointing out that these crises would all go away if we went to a system of flexible or floating exchange rates.
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In 1821, Britain went to a gold standard system after 23 years of floating currencies.
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In 1879, the U.S. went to a gold standard system after 19 years of floating currencies.
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While there's no shortage of bathroom-based oddities floating around out there, the Urilift system definitely takes top honors.
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This effect was not caused by the gold standard system itself, but rather from the decisions made as to how to return to a gold standard system after a period of floating currencies.
The Helix Producer will form part of a new collection system involving a so-called floating riser and four vessels which will be able to disconnect and reconnect quickly, reducing the time lost when collection is halted because of rough seas.
However, in 1971 under President Richard Nixon, the Bretton Woods system collapsed and the major currencies shifted to a floating exchange rate regime.
Not to be confused with a house boat which is mobile and can move around a floating home is permanently attached to a dock, is connected to a sewer system and does not have its own means of propulsion.
But a few months before the start of the campaign season the Supreme Leader attempted to undermine him further, floating a plan to eliminate the post of the Presidency and institute a more docile parliamentary system.
If a country adopted a gold standard system today, the result would be violent swings in exchange rates with other, floating currencies.
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There is, admittedly, a specific problem with China: freely floating the yuan would be risky so long as Chinese banks are laden with bad debts and the financial system is fragile.
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