A cheap currency is especially prized now, when aggregate demand in the rich world is so scarce and exports to emerging markets seem the best hope of economic salvation.

在总需求乏力，向新兴世界出口成为解救经济的最好方法时，廉价货币特别受到推崇。

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To the extent that scarce hard currency resources must be outlayed to repay debt obligations, such funds are unavailable for urgently needed investment and other stimuli to economic growth.

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Virtually anything essential is scarce unless you have foreign currency, but not even that always does the trick.

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Others made money selling hard-currency life insurance just after the crash, when dollars were scarce and Russians were desperately seeking ways of preserving their roubles from inflation.

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