Currencies

Bitcoin May Be The Currency Of The Future

Posted: February 1, 2012 11:02AM by Tim Parker

Have you heard of Bitcoin? If you're a fan of the CBS legal drama The Good Wife, then you may have learned of it for the first time there. But if you're like most, you probably didn't know that...

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Are $1 Coins A Better Option Than $1 Bills?

Posted: January 13, 2012 1:36PM by Brian O'Connell

Consumer groups are lining up to force the Federal Reserve to push moreÂ - much more - $1 coins into circulation. Groups like Citizens Against Government Waste are getting particularly aggressive...

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6 Currencies With A Bright Future

Posted: December 28, 2011 8:50AM by Manish Sahajwani

The year 2011 was a year of economic uncertainty for the financial markets the world over, especially the eurozone. With its deepening financial crisis, the euro has lost value rapidly. Another...

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How The Triffin Dilemma Affects Currencies

Posted: October 26, 2011 1:39PM by Brent Radcliffe

In October 1959, a Yale professor sat in front of Congress' Joint Economic Committee and calmly announced that the Bretton Woods system was doomed. The dollar could not survive as the world's...

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How SNB Hopes To Revive The Swiss Franc

Posted: October 21, 2011 10:34AM by Brent Radcliffe

What keeps central bankers awake at night? Sometimes it's the overwhelming pressure from politicians who want them to set aside being independent, for one moment, and listen to what the "people...

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Why Is The Euro Falling?

Posted: October 19, 2011 10:02AM by Michael Sanibel

When the euro was introduced as an accounting currency in January 1999, it was worth about US$1.179.Â It went into a downtrend that resulted in a low of 82.5 cents in October 2000. It bounced off that...

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How Will China's Currency Moves Affect The U.S.?

Posted: October 14, 2011 10:20AM by Stephen D. Simpson, CFA

Much of the financial media may still be focused on the accelerating downward spiral of Greece or the anti-Wall Street protests in New York City, but China took a page from Glenn Close's book...

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