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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If you thought the Board of the London Stock Exchange was a little scornful when it jilted Macquarie Bank for the first time back in December--" a derisory proposal which fundamentally undervalues the company and lacks any strategic or commercial credibility"--its latest blackball is downright disdainful.

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But a lot of my Fayetteville neighbors, who have young children, thought the supersized property tax bill was worth paying in exchange for world-class public schools.

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The Bombay Stock Exchange, while doing better than most people have thought, is schizophrenic.

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It is thought that it will reaffirm its commitment to market-determined exchange rates.

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One last thought: Although the Roach-Frankel duo went on to address currencies and exchange rates, the two never got to a basic risk factor in the current fragile period: What if the U.S. dollar, under the weight of private and public misallocation of resources, were to collapse?

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My areas of specialty are international economics (particularly exchange rates), macroeconomics, history of economics, and contemporary schools of thought.

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Lewis thought little enough for the movie rights to his story that he traded them to Lebed in exchange for access to the kid.

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