16 The government is running short of hard currency to pay for imports.
17 The currency was tied to the gold standard.
18 The dollar was therefore the key currency under the adjustable peg system.
19 Another benefit for business is the elimination of currency risk in the Euro area - the possibility that you might lose money in cross border trade because of exchange rate movements.
20 It now ranks along with oil and tourism as Mexico's biggest foreign currency earner.
21 Economic theory suggests that ultimately excessive trade deficits are corrected by currency devaluation.
22 To reduce in worth or value: degrade a currency.
23 The United States five-cent coin, commonly called a nickel, is a unit of currency equaling one-twentieth, or five hundredths, of a United States dollar.
24 Many people want to know who decides to inflate the currency.
25 For example, a depositor opening a checking account at a bank in the United States with $100 in currency surrenders legal title to the $100 in cash, which becomes an asset of the bank.
26 Other factors were beyond the publisher's control, namely unfavorable currency exchange rates and weaker global economies.
27 What's puzzling is why the rest of the world still wants to hold its money as a reserve currency.
28 Growth in the 19-nation eurozone has been lacklustre, and the currency bloc slipped into deflation in December.
29 “This is a complete capitulation. The pressure and belief that the European Central Bank will launch a bond buying program in the coming week - further devaluing its currency - has been enough to make the Swiss National Bank step out of the way," he said.
30 As the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox was careening toward collapse in early February, its owner, Mark Karpeles, found that even some of his fellow virtual currency advocates were losing faith.