To this end the French have been quietly talking to the Chinese, trying to get the idea of exchange-rate co-ordination on the table.
The Big Mac Index uses Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in comparing the price of the ubiquitous Big Mac across countries relative to its price in the USA. PPP refers to the idea that exchange rates across two countries should be equal to the relative price of a basket of goods and services in both countries.
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Notably, prominent investors such as Warren Buffett are not pleased with the idea of an exchange.
Moffit and his colleagues at the Heritage Foundation had promoted the idea of an exchange to help people buy insurance.
Most won't even look at an idea for yet another exchange or marketplace.
The idea is that in exchange for getting to defer or cut regular taxes you must make a partial payment now via the AMT.
That reasoning was silly, Rock said, so judges retreated to the idea that Securities and Exchange Commission regulations already cover the behavior of bidders in takeovers.
The idea of a pan-European exchange for small firms is not new.
It probably is a good idea to let the spat over the exchange rate cool for a while.
The idea is to unify the country's exchange rates so that businesses and the government can more easily handle accounting and convert money.
That has led the administration to reject the idea of offering North Korea additional aid in exchange for new North Korean vows to abide by agreements it has repeatedly abrogated.
The State Securities Commission (Vietnam's equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission) says it has no idea how many Vietnamese are trading U.S. stocks.
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But new Securities and Exchange Commission regulations set to take effect later this year breathed fresh life into the exchange world and gave Wall Street an idea that there were benefits to be reaped.
Although Borders asked those vendors to forgive unpaid bills in exchange for debt, several major publishers opposed the idea and it never came to fruition.
The key idea is that the SVSC works because people are willing to exchange information with other members with no tangible benefits other than expressing their passion for making a difference.
The deal would make the NYSE a publicly traded company--an idea that has been bandied about since Thain arrived at the exchange in late 2003 following the ouster of CEO Richard Grasso .
Patents were established to give inventors an incentive to take the risk of coming up with new technologies in exchange for protection against others who would steal the idea before the inventors could commercialize it.
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It was a program set up to create an educational exchange between American and Soviet youths, with the idea that there would be a sort of ping-pong politics style so that perhaps Soviet children would become envious of our way of life.
One idea is to refloat the joint Arab offer to recognise Israel in exchange for its full withdrawal to pre-1967 borders, first made in 2002, which was allowed to sink by a hostile Israel and indifferent Bush administration.
Just as they fear the destruction of their belongings by fire or theft, businesses may also be concerned that exchange- or interest-rate movements may turn a good idea into a lossmaker.
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Despite new fee disclosure rules mandated by the U.S. Department of Labor late last year, I would suspect that most employees have no idea how to compare these expenses to bargain-basement mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.
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One idea is to buy an intangible that tracks gold--such as an exchange-traded fund.
The idea is to allow holders of IRAs to pay tax on their accounts in exchange for converting them into Roth IRAs, which then become tax-free forever.
Needless to say, the exchange, and all its specialist firms, are virulently opposed to the idea of their clients having this choice.
The idea of having masses of reserves is partly a hangover from the Bretton Woods system of pegged exchange rates.
The idea was hatched by Ford Division's new marketing guru, Barry Engle, following an exchange with a handful of journalists prior to the Detroit auto show in early January.
Though his idea found early support, ministers in the end agreed only to continue discussions on tighter control of exchange rates and regulation of hedge funds.
When I first read the story I thought it was an exchange for actual goods, like bed pans and surgical kits, a circa-1999 idea like the old Commerce One or VerticalNet.
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The idea of Israel giving up the land it conquered in the course of successive wars waged against it in exchange for a genuine peace with the Arabs has been around at least since the last of those wars ended in 1973.
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