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Conflicts over currency valuations are a recurrent feature of the modern global economy. To strengthen their international competitiveness, many countries resort to buying foreign currencies to make their exports cheaper and their imports more expensive. In the first decade of the 21st century, for example, China's currency manipulation practices were so flagrant that they produced a backlash in the United States and other trading partners, prompting...
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In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar. Today we are engaged in a new currency war, and this time the consequences will be far worse than those that confronted Nixon.
Currency wars are one of the most destructive and feared outcomes in international economics. At best, they offer...
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This novel is a self-help guide in dealing with relationships during the pandemic and economic crisis. This book covers my personal dating life, and real-life experiences in dealing with various types of relationships, and offers successful solutions to the many problems we face in our everyday life. This book's directive is to be used as a guide and reference in dealing with many methods on how to date in person and online. Subjects cover love-relationships...
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This novel presents real-life personal experiences in becoming homeless, and getting out of that situation, while facing various challenges and obstacles. This novel provides advice and methods on how to cope and deal with adversity, ambitions, anxiety, stress, needs, wants and desires through tough times during the pandemic, and current economic crisis. This novel details real problems and accessible solutions, and guidelines to follow in order to...
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Money is changing and this may mean a new world order. David Birch sets out the economic and technological imperatives concerning digital money, and discusses its potential impact. Tensions will inevitably arise: between old and new, between public and private, and, most importantly, between East and West. This book contributes to the debate that we must have to shape the International Monetary and Financial System of the near future.
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What matters in life? Which of our actions count for more, which for less? Is there a point to life, and at the end of the day does it really make any difference if there is or isn't? What each of us really wants to know is this: Why are we here in the first place? It's 2010, yet in many ways it might as well be 1010. Despite the repeated warnings that to ignore history is to repeat it, in fact that is precisely what we do, both as individuals and...
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"Winner of the Best First Book Prize, Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association" Stefan Eich is assistant professor of government at Georgetown University.
Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies-money....
30) The Currency of Confidence: How Economic Beliefs Shape the IMF's Relationship with Its Borrowers
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The IMF is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, Stephen C. Nelson suggests, and its professional staff emerged from an insular set of American-trained economists. The IMF treats countries differently depending on whether that staff trusts the country's top officials; that trust in turn depends on the educational credentials of the policy team that Fund officials face across the negotiating table....
32) Hard currency
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As a serial killer terrorizes Moscow, Rostnikov gets an assignment in Havana The young girl leads her target into a park, planning on robbing him at knifepoint as soon as they are out of sight. But before she can strike, her quarry changes from a stooped middle-aged man to a feral beast, swinging a lead pipe with sadistic glee. By the time the police find the thief, her murderer is long gone. He is the first serial killer in Russian history, responsible...
36) Power Currency
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The POWER CURRENCY concepts go beyond traditional self-help guides by first encouraging you to identify what you actually want, beyond the material things that we are programmed to crave. After that, you need to understand the value of your own personal power, your mental, emotional, and spiritual portfolio, which needs to be, managed properly to grow. Then, your accumulated "power" can be, spent on the important things in life. However, you have...
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This is the book of Y.O.U. (Your Own Universe) which is designed to track and compound your life's capital.
The reason for this book is to make you aware of your Spirituality and Consciousness. The analogy of currency to our basic life's capital is a representation of the wealth of our spirit and the height of our consciousness. The book will take you on a journey to explore your belief systems regarding a variety of topics including Trust, Gratitude,...