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| Subject: Currencies Money, serving as a medium of exchange, that may be made reference to in securities transactions and financial product terms. US Trade Deficit By John Schroy, on April 9th, 2006 |  One comment  When the Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffet, fretted last year that the trade deficit signified that foreigners were taking over the United States, he echoed common misunderstandings about the excess of US imports over exports and the growing volume of dollar assets held by the rest of the world. The nice thing about the US trade deficit is that it represents the exchange of foreign goods and services for dollars, not foreign money. April 9th, 2006 | Print Article |  Email Article |  Topics: Currencies, Mercantilist Ideology, unemployment, US dollar, Warren Buffett | Category: US Trade Deficit | One comment |  Short urlWorld Economy By John Schroy, on February 19th, 2006 | Leave a comment  It used to be that the term ‘international liquidity’ meant the relative amount of resources available to a nation’s monetary authorities that could be used to settle a balance of payments deficit. In the days of the gold standard, this would mean access to gold that could be used to redeem a nation’s currency held by foreigners. After Bretton Woods and the advent of the dollar-gold exchange standard, liquidity came to mean access to dollars, either held as reserves or as credit lines, or the SDR system maintained by the International Monetary Fund. February 19th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: central bank, Currencies, gold standard, IMF, international liquidity | Category: World Economy, featured | Leave a comment | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
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