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| | United States dollar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The first dollar coins issued by the United States Mint were of the same size and composition as the Spanish dollar and even after the American Revolutionary War the Spanish and U.S. silver dollars circulated side by side in the United States. | | | Even foreign companies with little direct presence in the United States, such as the European company Airbus, list and sell their products in dollars, although some argue this is attributed to the aerospace market being dominated by American companies. | | | This coin was popular among American colonists, who called it the Spanish dollar, the name having derived from a German coin of similar size and composition known as the thaler. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar
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| | Dollar |
| | A decline in the dollar’s value gives way to an increase in manufacturing jobs, rise in American exports and creation of an accounts balance for the US economy. | | | On the upside, a weaker dollar will actually give a boost to the American economy and benefit industries such as US manufacturing. | | | The overvalued dollar has resulted in “the loss of about 740,000 manufacturing jobs (about 4% of the total manufacturing jobs), a decrease of nearly $100 billion in annual profits and a $40 billion (about 25 % of US manufacturing investment) fall of investment in the domestic manufacturing sector. |
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http://www.erpic.org/perihelion/articles2004/march/dollar.htm
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| | CBC News Indepth: The Canadian Dollar |
| | In early 2002, the Canadian dollar was trading at record lows, but given Canada's better economic performance in terms of cutting government debt and deficits, and the growth and inflation figures, it should have been no surprise when the loonie took off, he said. | | | While the Canadian dollar is constantly being measured against its U.S. counterpart because Canada and the U.S. are neighbours and the world's largest trading partnership, the loonie is just one of the national currencies that are valued in U.S. dollars, the closest thing to world money. | | | As the dollar jumped, companies that buy in U.S. dollars but sell in loonies, like petroleum refiners (which buy oil in U.S. dollars but sell gasoline in loonies) or telecommunication providers (which buy telecom equipment in U.S.-dollar markets, but bill Canadian subscribers in Canadian dollars) should be ahead. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/dollar_cdn
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| | Dollar Store Merchandise Supplier For 99 Cent Stores - KoleImports |
| | Dollar stores are the fastest growing segment of the retail industry with 15 billion dollars in net sales annually. | | | Dollar stores (99 cent stores) are our specialty, but our items sell well in all kinds of retail stores, and we do carry some higher-price-point items. | | | Our commitment is to be the best dollar stores' supplier and source of profit for our customers by supplying fast-selling unique dollar store items in attractive packaging at competitive prices. |
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http://www.koleimports.com
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| | Asia Times - Asia's most knowledgable news source |
| | The appetite of the big Asian economies to continue buying dollar assets is waning - last month the US barely achieved the $60 billion of foreign cash inflow required each month to keep it afloat. | | | The governor of the Bank of Japan has recently stated that having the dollar as the sole global currency is a marked disadvantage and danger, and recommended moving toward adopting the euro as a global currency alongside the dollar. | | | The US economy is also constructed around a fundamental framework - its currency, the almighty dollar, and the apparently firm and virtually unbreakable international support it enjoys. |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/FK25Dj03.html
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| | United States dollar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The first dollar coins issued by the United States Mint were of the same size and composition as the Spanish dollar and even after the American Revolutionary War the Spanish and U.S. silver dollars circulated side by side in the United States. | | | The dollar is also used as the standard unit of currency in international markets for commodities such as gold and oil. | | | Economist Paul Samuelson and others maintain that the overseas demand for dollars allows the United States to maintain persistent trade deficits without causing the value of the currency to depreciate and the flow of trade to readjust. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar
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| | one dollar bill |
| | The American One Dollar Bill Take out a one dollar bill, and look at it. | | | american bill dollar one HOME Related: Dollar Bill Pyramid One Dollar Bill American Dollar Bill Symbols On The Dollar Bill One Dollar Bill President Size 25 Cent Coin american bill dollar one | | | Take out a one dollar bill and look at it. |
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http://www.shopping-internet.com/dollars/onedollarbill
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| | More on dollarization. |
| | Courchene argues a North American currency union would be a better alternative than just adopting the U.S. dollar because it would allow Canadian finance and central bank officials a degree of independence and control over monetary policy. | | | When the currency is undervalued against the U.S. dollar it discourages productivity improvements, drives investment to the United States; and discourages the development of human-capital-intensive industries in Canada. | | | American money looks so similar, that you have to actually look at the number on it to know which one is which. |
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http://www.unitednorthamerica.org/phpBB2/about1045.html
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| | CORPORATE PROFILE ANGLO-AMERICAN CORPORATION: A |
| | Anglo's sales have netted record profits over the last several years, but with the collapse of the value of the rand, the dollar value has actually fallen, which resulted in a reduction in dividend payments. | | | Anglo- American, meanwhile, is increasingly being viewed as the "flip side of the same coin," one of the many wheels that grease the apartheid machinery through tax payments and growing productive industrial, mining and financial power. | | | Anglo-American has an anti-labor history that involves the use of the repressive services of the apartheid security apparatus, as well as its own security personnel, to control and exploit workers. |
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http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1988/09/mm0988_08.html
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Toxin du jour (Dollar Store Toothpaste) |
| | One major concern is that one can often find toothpaste intended for foreign markets for sale in dollar stores, product that may not meet the same governmental regulations required of American manufacturers or that may have been made by foreign companies with lower quality-control standards than American firms. | | | Often the items sold in dollar stores are inexpensive simply because they're off-brand, lesser quality, foreign, or just cheaper merchandise to begin with. | | | Some dollar stores sell expired and foreign, non-ADA-approved formulations of toothpaste. |
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http://www.snopes.com/toxins/toothpaste.asp
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| | Carolina Piedmont Currency Change - The American Liberty Dollar: How To Get Started! |
| | If you are interested in being a Liberty currency user and also purchase ALDs at a discount, there is a one time non-refundable fee of $150.00 ($50.00 to American Liberty Dollar (NORFED) and $100.00 to your sponsor (hopefully us). | | | If your store or business wants to accept American Liberty Dollars and be listed on our local website and the growing national American Liberty Dollar website, click on www.libertydollar.org to view ALD’s website. | | | You must also commit to exchange $100.00 US Dollars (those Federal Reserve Notes) for $100.00 face value ALDs. |
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http://www.choiceoneinc.com/cpla_howto.html
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| | YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> gl:Euro |
| | The role of the dollar as the world's de facto reserve currency helps support both the dollar and the US budget deficit — but it depends on the continued willingness of foreigners to finance both. | | | The currency was introduced in non-physical form (travellers' cheques, electronic transfers, banking, etc.) at midnight on 1 January, 1999, when the national currencies of participating countries (the Eurozone) ceased to exist independently in that their exchange rates were locked at fixed rates against each other, effectively making them mere non-decimal subdivisions of the euro. | | | If the Euro were to become a reserve currency it would benefit member countries by lowering the service charges on their debts. |
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http://www.yourart.com/research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/gl:Euro
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| | Iraq and the hidden euro-dollar wars |
| | The dollar hegemony is strategic to the future of American global predominance, in many respects as important if not more so, than the overwhelming military power. | | | A hidden war between the dollar and the new Euro currency for global hegemony is at the heart of this new phase. | | | Dollar credits were extended along with Marshall Plan assistance and credits to finance the rebuilding of war-torn Europe. |
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ENG401A.html
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| | Carolina Piedmont Currency Exchange - The American Liberty Dollar - Charlotte, NC |
| | CPCE provides a basic level of business services related to the American Liberty Dollar. | | | American Liberty Dollars are.999 (triple 9s) fine silver (also called pure silver) rounds in four denominations - $20, $10, $5 and $1 Liberty Silver Certificates and two Silver Libertys - the one ounce ($20) and half-ounce ($10). | | | CPCE is a program of Choice One, Inc., a company that has served North Carolinians since 1991, and provides a service of exchange for Liberty Merchants, Liberty Associates and individual consumers. |
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http://www.choiceoneinc.com/cpla.html
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| | Coldwell Banker Cayman Islands Real Estate - Cayman Islands |
| | The language is English and the American dollar is readily accepted, although the local currency is the Cayman dollar which is pegged to the US dollar at 1.25. | | | Cayman Residency allows unrestricted stays in the Cayman Island and allows one to be taxed (usually not taxed) as a non-resident in ones home country. | | | Cayman is the fastest growing tax haven in the world with large accounts transferring from Switzerland, Bermuda, and the Bahamas. |
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http://www.caymanislandsrealty.com/ky?get?kycaymanislands
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| | Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving - SS President Coolidge |
| | The Dollar Line was loaned more than $5,000,000 by the US Government for this construction (the boats were to be used to carry mail and the US Government had a long history of subsidising ships that were used for this purpose). | | | Eventually, the Dollar family passed ownership of the line to the Government in a swap for cancelling the debts of the line. | | | However, the end was near and despite the insurance money from the loss of the SS President Madison ($1m when she capsized at the Seattle wharf while being repaired), the Dollar Line got more and more into debt. |
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http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/articles/coolinfo.htm
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| | EC 302 - Fall 2004 |
| | A low dollar has been good for U.S. exports by making American products cheaper abroad, but world leaders outside the United States are worried that the rapid rise is hurting their exports. | | | The Japanese yen, British pound and other currencies have also been making dramatic gains on the dollar as corporations and long-term investors seek to diversify their assets now that sentiment has turned against the U.S. currency. | | | The dollar dropped against the Swiss franc to 1.1312 from 1.1512, and against the Canadian dollar to 1.1900 from 1.1925. |
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http://www.msu.edu/~obst/302Fa04-Nts4.htm
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| | United States dollar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The first dollar coins issued by the United States mint were of the same size and composition as the Spanish dollar and even after the American Revolutionary War the Spanish and U.S. silver dollars circulated side by side in the United States. | | | The dollar is also used as the standard unit of currency in international markets for commodities such as gold and oil. | | | According to economist Paul Samuelson, the overseas demand for dollars allows the United States to maintain persistent trade deficits without causing the value of the currency to depreciate and the flow of trade to readjust. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar
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| | Zim dollar plunges |
| | Last week, the Reserve Bank sent the market into a further tailspin when it bought U.S. dollars without offering any explanation to a market already struggling with a shortage of the American currency. | | | Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank declined to make immediate comment on the dollar buying yesterday. | | | ``Unfortunately foreign exchange reserves cannot be used to support the Zimbabwe dollar without limit, especially when inflation differentials between Zimbabwe and its trade partners indicate otherwise,'' the bank said. |
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http://www.namibian.com.na/Focus/DRCcrisis/zimdollar1.html
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| | United States dollar - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | The United States dollar or American dollar is the official currency of the United States of America. | | | The American dollar comes on a bill with a picture of George Washington. | | | The symbol for the American dollar is the dollar sign ( $). |
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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar
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| | Frontline Fellowship - Zimbabwean Ruins |
| | At independence a Rhodesian dollar was worth more than an American dollar. | | | When the local currency collapsed, he tried to fix the exchange rate – expecting people to willingly exchange hard currency for the now hugely overvalued Zimbabwean dollar. | | | Even as the Zimbabwe Dollar plunged at the news, Mugabe decided to send a quarter of his army to fight in the Congo to prop up fellow marxist dictator Kabila. |
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http://www.frontline.org.za/articles/zimbabwean_ruins.htm
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| | Dollars and deficits - The Washington Times: Commentary - December 19, 2004 |
| | In the May 1986 American Economic Review, Republican economist Martin Feldstein decreed that, "The massive current and projected budget deficits were the primary cause of the sharp 60 percent rise in the real trade-weighted value of the dollar between 1980 and the end of 1984. | | | Although these ups and downs were transparently unrelated to budget deficits or surpluses, apostles of the quaint Keynesian faith have nonetheless misspent two decades alternating between predictions that budget deficits must push the dollar up or down. | | | Some of the most painful errors in economic policy resulted from the belief monetary problems were not monetary but fiscal — caused by budget deficits. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20041218-100134-1250r.htm
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| | City of Toronto: Doing Business in Toronto: Key Industry Clusters |
| | American producers in particular are attracted to Toronto because of the city's pool of top-quality creative and technical talent, excellent production facilities and lower costs. | | | The recent introduction of federal and provincial tax credits and other subsidies for foreign producers has become an additional incentive for film and television production activity in Toronto. | | | The Ontario Computer Animation and Special Effects (OCASE) Tax Credit provides a 20 per cent refundable tax credit on qualifying labour expenditures for computer animation and special effects produced in Ontario for use in film and television productions. |
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http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/economic_profile/media.htm
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| | Encyclopedia: Cayman Islands dollar |
| | The United States dollar, or American dollar, is the official currency of the United States. | | | The currency of the Cayman Islands is the Cayman Dollar, and the Cayman Islands Currency is issued by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) as established by law in January 1997. | | | The Barbados dollar – currency symbol $ or Bds$ – is the national unit of currency of Barbados. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Cayman-Islands-dollar
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Business (A Loon Way Home) |
| | Canada, like its American cousin, had long had a "silver" dollar, the dollar hadn't seen much use as a circulated coin in the latter part of the 20th century; | | | The loonie was created to replace the one-dollar bill, which was to be removed from circulation through attrition; worn-out dollar bills would continue to be destroyed, but no new stock of paper currency would take their place. | | | In 1987 Canada's currency underwent a major change with the introduction of "the loonie," that country's new gold-colored one-dollar coin. |
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http://www.snopes.com/business/money/loonie.asp
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| | Dollarization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dollarization can be understood in the broad sense of using any foreign currency, or follow the expression in really using the US dollar, as the national currency. | | | Dollarization occurs when the inhabitants of a country use foreign currency in parallel to or instead of the domestic currency. | | | officially, when a country ceases to issue the domestic currency and uses only foreign currency. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollarization
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| | Currency by Country |
| | Dollar Diplomacy.(legalization of American dollar as national currency by Latin American countries)(Brief Article) | | | Dynamics of currency substitution, asset substitution and de facto dollarisation and euroisation in transition countries. | | | Probably not, but selective expansion of existing monetary unions could be used to induce countries to improve their policies.(Cover Story) |
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| | The Economy |
| | Belize is also a member of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), the African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) group of countries, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the British Commonwealth, the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and several other international agencies. | | | The Central Bank has a statutory obligation under the Bank Act to foster monetary stability and promote credit and exchange conditions conducive to economic growth within the context of the government's economic policy. | | | Presently, import and Revenue Replacement duty accounts for 38% of total Recurrent Revenues, while Taxes on Goods and Services 30%. |
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