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Arab States Have Launched Secret Moves To Stop Using U.S. Currency For Oil Trading

The Independent | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

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By Robert Fisk | The Independent In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning - along with China, Rus...

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BRIC: Emerging Economic Powers Meet In Russia -- Western Powers Not Invited

nytimes.com | CLIFFORD J. LEVY | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

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MOSCOW Leaders of some of the world's most powerful economies gathered Tuesday to discuss how they can exert more control over the global financial s...

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Roubini: China's Renminbi Will Likely Overtake US Dollar As World Currency

New York Times | NOURIEL ROUBINI | Posted 06.14.2009 | Business

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THE 19th century was dominated by the British Empire, the 20th century by the United States. We may now be entering the Asian century, dominated by a ...

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Local Currencies: Communities Printing Own Money To Keep Cash Flowing

Huffington Post/USA Today/Detroit News | Compiled by Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business

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UPDATE: USA Today's reporting on local currencies gives the impression that this is a NEW phenomenon born from the recession. Rather, many of these...

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Another GOP Rep. Signs Onto Bachmann Conspiracy Theory

The Washington Independent | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics

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I was just talking to Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who's leaving Congress to run for governor of Michigan, about his proposed Parental Rights Amendme...

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Michele Bachmann: Obama Might Abandon The Dollar

The Plum Line | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

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GOP Rep Michele Bachmann, who is quite the colorful character, wants an answer: Is Obama secretly in favor of getting rid of the dollar and replacin...

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Should The World's Reserve Currency Yield Zero Percent

Michael Pento | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business

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Michael Pento

We must grow the economy by empowering the private sector. I would have hoped by now we learned that inflation doesn't solve anything.

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If We're Going to Spend, Now's the Time To Do So

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 01.07.2009 | Business

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Hale

I agree that given the severity of the current situation, massive government spending is pretty much our only hope right now. But arguing that it is a certainty is unwise.

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US, China Headed For Possible Clash Over Currency

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business

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BEIJING — China's chief trade envoy urged Washington on Thursday to stabilize its economy and protect Beijing's U.S. investments as the two side...

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Rising Prices Stoke Inflation Fear

Washington Post | Neil Irwin | Posted 06.11.2008 | Business

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Prices have been soaring long enough and fast enough, economists say, that the nation is at risk of a self-reinforcing cycle of inflation like that ex...

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Euro, Yen Climb Against Dollar

AP | MATT MOORE and YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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FRANKFURT, Germany — Widespread concern about the outlook for the U.S. economy pushed the euro to a new record and the yen to 12-year highs agai...

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Experts: Don't Fear The Weak Dollar

CNN/Money | David Ellis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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Concerns about the weak dollar are mounting. But even as the greenback sinks to new lows against the euro and other global currencies, some experts sa...

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