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Interestingly, Foreign corps would not be subject to this law and could immediately arbitrage by purchasing US based multinationals for 40% less than the value if held by a foreign corp.
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Inflation also cheapens the purchasing power of the debt held by foreign governments, namely China, who must eventually spend their trillions in dollar reserves on goods, services or investments other than debt.
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If the Fed chooses to reduce the real burden of the debt via inflation, the purchasing power of money will fall along with the foreign exchange value of the dollar, and those who trusted in U.S. public debt will suffer.
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At the moment, African medicinal plants are often ignored because foreign buyers have no guarantee of the quality of the materials they are purchasing.
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As with other luxury markets across the U.S., however, foreign buyers harking from countries like England and Switzerland are becoming an increasingly bigger purchasing presence.
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So successful has Draghi's bond-purchasing pledge been in driving down Spanish and Italian yields that some foreign investors now see Italian bonds as an attractive buying opportunity.
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Now the question is how much Japan, one of the largest foreign buyers of U.S. government debt, will have to pull back from purchasing U.S. Treasury bonds, and how the Fed will offset that.
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Inflows of foreign capital have pushed up the leu against the dollar, restoring some of Romanians' lost purchasing power and prompting the central bank to sell the currency lest it rise too much, choking off exports.
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The failure of nearly two years of negotiations comes down to Washington's insistence on two numerical targets: the expansion and revision of "voluntary" auto parts purchasing plans by Japanese companies, and a commitment on the number of dealerships handling foreign-made vehicles.
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