Sentences with phrase «dollar shortages on»

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To offset the crippling bank note shortages impacting the country, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has been printing bond notes (Zimbabwe's own version of US Dollars) that are supposed to have equal value to the greenback but are actually trading at a premium of about 30 % to the US dollar on parallel markets.

That can be appealing to consumers who have been smacked with sticker shock on the produce aisle over the past year due to the low Canadian dollar and other factors, including shortages caused by a drought in California.

There is a big gambling culture in Australia, so do like the locals do and get involved by sticking a few dollars on something — there is no shortage of sporting events to bet on.

Not only is there a massive demand for the console, with close to a million consoles sold in North America alone, there had been an extreme shortage of stock and people who were dying to get their hands on one, were even paying upwards of a thousand dollars to get one.

What's missing from this logic is, we will be spending trillions of dollars on new infrastructure throughout the world in coming decades — the question to ask is whether that spending locks us into current patterns of fossil fuel dependance, inevitable shortages, pollution, war and climate catastrophe.

From pressure on commissions to a shortage of inventory, company dollars are being squeezed.