Now that trend is starting to reverse: The exchange rate is now back where it was six months ago, and UBS reports Indian gold demand at a five-month high.

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Lazard advised the New York Stock Exchange in its pending reverse merger with Archipelago Holdings (nyse: AX - news - people ). (Goldman Sachs, which first brought the idea to NYSE and Archipelago, is the lead bank on the Lazard IPO).

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The company just started trading on the Nasdaq in February, after a reverse merger late last year got them a ticker on the Toronto stock exchange.

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Milton Friedman and others reminded us decades ago that such internal adjustments necessary to reverse an external deficit were ultimately the same under a gold standard, flexible exchange rates, or some hybrid exchange rate regime.

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That includes reverse mortgages, in which homeowners sign over property to financial institutions and, in exchange, receive lifetime monthly payments and residence rights in their homes.

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First he took the company public, in a reverse merger with electronic network Archipelago Holdings, then he forged the first trans-Atlantic exchange merger, with Euronext.

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