Sentences with word «debasement»

I can not think of a better way to counteract the stultifying «Whig» theory of history, with its bland assumption that every cause which has won has deserved to win, a kind of pragmatic debasement of the older providential theory.

Unknowingly priming the market were yuan bears who dominated the news with forecasts of a mega-devaluation before Chinese New Year, and Chinese savers fearful of currency debasement continued to purchase bitcoin as a hedge.

Another zero has been added to the gold price equation over the last 35 to 40 years of monetary debasement.

Mauldin describes all of these practices as «Code Red» policies, along with currency debasement in general.

Anyone familiar with the long history of debasements by ancient and medieval government mints, or with the history of fiat money inflations by modern government central banks, knows that governments have often been untrustworthy issuers.

Bright spots, very small bright spots, here and there, but the pattern of debasement continues unabated - and continues to spread through the rest of the world as perhaps America's chief disservice to world history.

His work is a reaction to the failure of positivism, its commercial debasement in the postwar era, and to the final madness it has precipitated - nuclear terror.

Gold can act as a hedge against quantitative easing and currency debasement because it is viewed as an alternative to fiat currencies.

Whatever their political affiliation, Nassau voters should unite behind Singas, confident that she would do a good job and prevent the complete political debasement of their district attorney's office.

A tortuous spiritual journey through debasement and self - deception leads, in the end, to an experience of communion, the discovery of another soul who had been there all along, awaiting recognition.

Such hoaxers have periodically been arrested and jailed for physically stalking and harassing survivors, but despite their outlandish beliefs and apparent moral debasement, they are not exactly the «fringe.»

But queerness has never looked so bland, and for a film about a sexual revolution, pleasurable sex is conspicuously absent: Indeed, most of the shockingly few sex scenes result in the protagonist, the white, all - American, conspicuously attractive Danny (Jeremy Irvine), so ashamed by his apparent debasement — he briefly resorts to tricking for cash — that he's literally brought to tears while having his dick sucked.

I've heard proposals for further debasement of the currency via placing expiration dates on currency, or randomly canceling currency through lotteries based on the serial numbers on the bills.

Since then, I try to focus on hard and / or naturally yielding assets, while trying to stay independent from the long - term debasement of fiat currencies.

The bottom line here is this: none of these investment vehicles are perfect, in fact many have significant flaws; but despite their flaws they attract money away from gold, thus undermining gold's monopoly on the fear / inflation / currency debasement trade.

For example, in ancient Rome it took the merchants a few months to catch up following a round of coinage debasement, meaning that it took a few months for prices to adjust to the reduced value of the money.

Developing an argument published here («Back to the Future,» August / September 1999), the author provides reason for hope that the sundry debasements of popular music during the rock era may be coming to an end.

Such a concerted campaign to use human rights in justifying military action is without precedent in U.S. — Latin American relations, and its effect is an unprecedented debasement of the human rights cause.24

The baron wasted lands wreak of its rainy wantonness ever drying the foment of landing appraisals awaiting the vacated acquiescence of a spring like thawing of vesper debasements chicaneries.

She and her co-author Rabbi Shmuley Boteach wrote that the «experiment in mass debasement» is damaging culture, adding «we have often warned about pornography's corrosive effects on a man's soul and on his ability to function as husband and, by extension, as father.»

Kimball takes on the more difficult task of explaining why art is so important to culture, and how its present debasement might be remedied.

What debasement..

But without any doubt the extraordinary debasement of the City Government that took place under then Mayor Koch can not be disputed.

Meanwhile, the slow and steady debasement of public service in New York becomes more and more visible across the spectrum, characterized by: Brian McLoughlin, Hiram Monseratte, Malcolm Smith, Donald Manes, Gregory Meeks, Carl Kruger, Pedro Espada, Elliot Spitzer, and Anthony Weiner, just to name a few.

Apatow (Freaks and Geeks) proves himself as suited for the big screen as the small, and Carell, taking a cue from Ben Stiller's propensity for comedic debasement, launches himself into his role with a complete lack of ego; the much - trailered chest wax scene is 100 percent authentic, and achieves a sort of flippant Zen brilliance even though you know what's coming.

Earns unintentional laughs time and again, but at a certain point it stops being funny and becomes offensive instead, frightening in its constitutional debasement and exploitative sideshow spectacle.

For whatever barbed, flippant debasements they so freely hand out in their career nowadays, Blood Simple finds the Coens in a tricky, beguilingly sobered formalist mode, building a dark and devious noir out of trove of double - crosses, seedy dealings, a few bad deaths, and one genuinely frightening nightmare, with the Four Tops's «It's the Same Old Song» seemingly on repeat.

Irritating the gross debasement of «normalcy» in the same way, as it happens, as the use of clocks and Happy Accidents - style time slippage, is the uncomfortable revelation that it's always half - past in The Machinist, and gaining speed on the downhill side.

I've been bearish on the US Dollar since mid-2002, when I saw that our monetary and fiscal policy were shifting to aggressive levels of debasement stimulus.

While coin clipping was practiced within the private sector, in the state sector monetary debasement took on an industrial scale.

But it does matter when the cumulative impact of deficits, debt & debasement threatens to approach an inflection point in terms of national financial stability.

Otherwise, the Fed & the BoJ clearly don't give a shit about the potential currency debasement implications of their actions, while the PBoC is obviously driven primarily by ideological considerations.

Yes, there is monetary debasement going on.

If China will not allow its currency to strengthen, well then, the path of least resistance is for the US to debase its currency, leading the world in a cycle of competitive debasement / inflation.

However alarming it is to buy in the face of such shaky economic & political fundamentals, the old saw «You can't fight the Fed «(or eventual US dollar debasement) is true most of the time.

And this isn't a new phenomenon, it's been that way for many decades now — so the abject debasement of the dollar over those same decades is no surprise.

But even taking the narrow view of merit, it is difficult to see how appointing the top 10 % of female applicants (and only the top 5 % of male applicants) is some genuine debasement of merit.

«By aggressively mitigating the effects of the 2008 financial crisis via unparalleled global monetary debasement extending for nearly a decade, central banks have brought us today's «bubbles everywhere» investment landscape.»

The result is that no fiat currency in history has ever survived its inevitable debasement.

Imminent fears of more currency debasement prompted Chinese bitcoin punters to break the cryptocurrency out of its $ 200 - to - $ 300 prison.

These moves make some cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, more attractive to investors, due to the fact that they are both finite and safe from debasement and inflation.