The first central banks were created to handle the sovereign's financial affairs and issue a national currency.

最初设立中央银行是为了处理主权金融事务和发行一国货币。

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We have been able to issue debt in our own currency rather than a foreign one, thus shifting the losses of a fall in the value of the dollar to our creditors.

我们可以以自己的货币美元发行债券，由此将美元贬值带来的损失转嫁到我们的债权人身上。

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Other senators are joining Schumer in an effort to pass legislation to force the Obama administration to get tough with China on the currency issue.

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Is it its capacity to tax people, or is it its capacity to issue currency?

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If it meant that countries were restricted in their ability to issue more currency without having a specific level of gold reserves, then the answer was no.

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Last month Dai Xianglong, the central-bank governor, announced that China is rolling out a national payment network, due to be completed by 2005, when foreign banks will also be allowed to issue domestic-currency cards to Chinese customers.

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