Resistance remains stiff in many quarters against new technologies despite being cheaper, more empowering, and likely to produce hard dollar benefits.
Whether that amount is a set percentage of the account value or a hard dollar amount does not matter as much as having the parameter in place.
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In addition, the company, which has a large presence in the U.S., has been hit hard by the weakening dollar.
Years of following IMF policies and a hard peg to the dollar caused the meltdown, as Argentina saw its currency devalue 400% and its economy plunge.
Nintendo is having a hard time selling thirty dollar portable games and they have a comparatively protected market, so Square has a challenge ahead of them with a similar proposition in a more wide-open and competitive marketplace.
The dollar was on its back making hard assets all the more attractive and the inflation a weaker dollar generated was being overlooked by the Fed at a time when other central bankers were starting to act by tightening credit.
To appreciate the dollar's dominant international role and why it will be so hard to dislodge, consider that the dollar enters one side of 90% of all the world's interbank foreign exchange transactions.
You want a kind of gold standard, with the dollar and other hard currencies acting as a substitute for gold.
What gold's supposed to do this time of year is trade sideways to slightly lower, within a 5% range, Hodaly said, until seasonal demand kicks in out of Asia and with European countries looking to diversify out of the dollar and into hard assets.
Far more common--but still damaging--are the high-volume crime spikes, spam e-mail distribution and "phishing, " a pernicious technique for stealing credit-card information. (For more on online scams, check out "Where The Scammers Are".) The carnage is hard to pin down in dollar terms, but Marcus Ranum, chief security officer of Tenable Security, says it's "billions upon billions"--far more than all "major" hacking incidents combined.
They are saying that a weak dollar is forcing Central Banks around the world to turn to other currencies and hard assets because they are losing value on their dollar based assets.
Multinational companies have a hard time selling overseas when the dollar is so expensive.
What happens if say we go to a hard currency, say gold backed dollar in a fixed relationship?
The government takes hard currencies, such as the dollar, and buys up their own money in the foreign exchange markets.
The yanqui dollar is still a hard sell for Latin American politicians.
Instead Obama got 1.3% economic growth rates, the economy teetering on the edge of a double dip, an unemployment rate over 9%, and shrill claims from the hard left that mere near trillion dollar deficits simply are not enough.
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China may very well diversify away from the dollar and even US Treasury bonds, but it is hard to see any major government holder of US dollars going from a 95% dollar position to a 60% position, or even a 50% or lower position anytime soon.
In terms of security delivered per dollar spent, they are hard to beat, so they are not going away.
Ms. Landry can't afford that, and in a world of trillion-dollar deficits it's hard to see how the federal government can either.
Democrats waged a multimillion-dollar ad campaign and lobbied hard for the bill but still came up 13 votes short of the two-thirds needed to pass.
Under such a regime no local currency would be issued unless it had 100% backing from hard currency reserves, such as the dollar or the euro.
And, the only reason you or I accept the dollar in exchange for our hard work or goods is because we trust that someone else will accept it in turn.
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Years of fiscal profligacy and a 1 to 1 hard peg between the peso and the dollar were financed with credit, a-la U.S.A during the Bush years, only that in its Latin American version.
Commodities have been rising on account of demand and loose monetary policy in the US, in particular, where near-zero capital costs have weakened the dollar and turned money managers onto hard assets like oil, gold, and agricultural commodities.
With the Fed trashing the dollar, money went into housing and hard assets.
Another round of quantitative easing, whatever it may be called, would cause the dollar to weaken as investors turn to hard assets like commodities to hedge.
With many Russians also wary of hanging on to roubles until after the planned redenomination on January 1st, which will relaunch the currency at 6.1 to the dollar, the central bank will be hard-pressed to hold the line until then.
Dudley Gaspard, who owns the Sand Dollar Marina and Hotel, has been hit hard as well.
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Moreover, the strong Brazilian currency trend means that Brazilians can spend less of their own hard earned money, the real, to acquire weak dollar assets like real estate.
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