Such expansionist monetary policies in and of themselves, in isolation regarding the fiscal policies, ultimately lead to a depreciation in the value of the currencies of emerging countries -- rather they lead to a depreciation in the value of the currency of developed countries, thus impairing growth outlooks in emerging countries.

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But this often made things worse, because the depreciation took the value of small coins below the point at which it paid to melt them down.

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We expect to see continued home value depreciation as unemployment and negative equity remain high and as the pace of foreclosures, kept artificially low since the robo-signing controversy, increases again.

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