soft currency

These include the ideas of soft currency, barter and the local service economy.

Perhaps the payoff he seeks is in a softer currency: status.

A soft currency and high deficits is no friend of the European citizen of the present or the future.

We're beginning to learn what a strong pound buys when converted into the soft currency of the dinar.

We worry unduly about the countries which will stay out and pursue soft currency policies in order to gain competitiveness.

In various proportions of gold, hard currencies and soft currencies."

And yes, it is soft currency.

The differences in socio-economic realities between the traditional hard currency and soft currency countries are even more striking.

After years of being ridiculed as a soft currency, the French franc is increasingly being viewed as a hard one.

Europe with a soft currency, or with unduly great tensions between the national economies sharing a common currency, could prove a dangerous thing.

Conversely, a soft currency indicates a currency which is expected to fluctuate erratically or depreciate against other currencies.

The Act was a reaction to the growing concerns about excessive speculations of land after the Indian removal, which was mostly done with soft currency.

In some economies, which may be either planned economies or market economies using a soft currency, there are special stores that accept only hard currency.

Aliber argues that a multinational corporation from hard currency area can borrow at lower rates in a soft currency country than can local firms.

Among other factors that have lent support to gold prices is the recent weakness in the dollar, which is held by many investors in countries with much softer currencies.

Economic growth this year is expected to be in the 3-percent range, and the franc, recently one of Europe's soft currencies, is challenging the mark in the European Monetary System.

Second, if you want to do business outside of the Western economies, you have to be prepared to deal creatively with the problems of soft currencies, inefficient bureaucracies and unfamiliar surroundings.

This soft currency policy conducted by other economic powers naturally harms Europe, as well as other countries, and therefore must, in my opinion, be an important topic of debate at the G20 summit.

- T. L. C., Hartsdale, N.Y. Answer: The Tunisian dinar is a so-called soft currency, one that is not generally bought and sold outside Tunisia.

To Deak International, the currency trading group, and similar companies, soft currencies are those for which there is little international demand and are regarded as risky commodities because of their fluctuations in value.

The distortions of competition, caused by unilateral devaluations, which are at present a burden on the external trade balances of certain Member States, cannot be overcome by the countries with soft currencies remaining outside.

In its most recent quarter, DuPont said that soft currencies overseas, particularly in Europe and Asia, had dragged down its sales 2 percent worldwide, ultimately costing it $35 million in net income.

In particular, the non-transparency of financial products and high-risk packaged structures, together with the United States' soft currency policy and conflicts of interest in terms of ratings, gave rise to a global financial crisis.

She is grateful that some Western dealers accept Romania's soft currency for their products, but she complains that the Government keeps half her money when she converts her lei into dollars to import goods.

I do not consider it appropriate in that context always to be talking in terms of black and white, of hard and soft currencies, particularly when, in the background, we are considering and fixing exchange rate mechanisms.