Currency Quotes
Insights on money, markets, and monetary policy.
These currency quotes explain how floating exchange rates can bring volatility when capital moves quickly across borders. See our Economy quotes for more on markets.
When financial sectors are small and capital is mobile, floating exchange rates spell massive currency volatility. When a lot of foreign capital flows in, a freely floating exchange rate rises sharply, wreaking havoc for domestic banks and exporters alike.
The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
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This is a once in a lifetime event. It is very rare to remove 86% of the currency in circulation in one go. The logistics of such an operation are mammoth.
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A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.
Current Events Quotes
If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.
So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.
But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase.
Current Situation Quotes
Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.
There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.
Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
This Bitcoin currency is a voluntary decentralized currency, anonymous. It can't be shut down by anyone; there are no central servers.
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If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.
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Other voices weigh the tradeoffs of a shared regional currency and describe the logistics of a rare, large-scale currency overhaul. Browse our Current Events or Current quotes.
