Sentences with phrase «in currency regimes»

I have used a fall in exports to show how constrained Beijing's policy choices are, but I could just have easily done the same using as an example any change in the currency regime, the reform of the hukou system, the de-industrialization of the bankrupt northeast provinces, the development of the OBOR and Silk Road projects, changes in interest rates or minimum reserves, protecting the stock market from crashing, the provincial bond swaps, changes in the tax regime, improving energy and environmental policies, and so on.

Not exact matches

Instead of correcting course to avoid further catastrophe, the Maduro regime is attempting to circumvent sanctions through the Petro digital currency — a ploy that Venezuela's democratically - elected National Assembly has denounced and Treasury has cautioned U.S. persons to avoid,» Mnuchin said in a statement.

The Treasury Department warned investors in January to steer clear of the digital currency, calling it «another attempt to prop up the Maduro regime, while further looting the resources of the Venezuelan people.»

China, for example, still imposes many restrictions on foreign capital, and its currency regime restricts companies from trading in the yuan.

The current oil crisis will see regime changes in strategic places, and a currency crisis is in the offing.

Or, in a similar vein, consider the international financial market reaction to China's decision to alter its foreign exchange rate regime and how the RMB is managed relative to the dollar versus a broader basket of foreign currencies.

But from our point of view, the world is filled with dislocations, and decoupling is likely in different interest - rate regimes and different currency regimes.

Ultimately the goal of any regulatory regime should be to increase efficiency using technology, and this is what innovators are hoping regulators keep in mind when addressing virtual currency regulation.

We are moving into a «virtual» economy where workers are spread across the world living in different countries, their paychecks and expenses traveling across currencies and tax regimes.

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The President highlighted some of the obstacles to realizing the roadmap for the implementation of a single currency in the sub-region to include, diverse and uncertain macro — economic fundamentals of many countries, unrealistic inflation targeting based on flexible exchange rate regime and inconsistency with the African Monetary Co-operation Programme.

These measures were adopted as a necessary condition of imposing necessary disciplines on the fiscal regimes of member states in order to convince the markets that the euro would be a viable currency.

The collapse of Bretton Woods system in 1973 and the shift of major currencies to floating exchange rate regimes lessened the reliance on the SDR as a global reserve asset.

With over 80 % of the bitcoin trading volume expressed in the Chinese currency, CryptoNinjas feels that a weak yuan regime provides a tailwind for the currency.

Recorded Future, an intelligence research firm backed by Google Venture and In - Q - Tel (a venture capital firm funded by the CIA), reported that North Korea began «mining» bitcoin on May 17 and could be using the digital currency to generate income for the regime.

In a country where the fiat currency is worth little and sanctions from the U.S. continue to mount, a state - sanctioned cryptocurrency may cause Venezuela — a typically restrictive regime — to become one of the most progressive countries on cryptocurrency regulations (even if only to further sales of petro).

On the famously confusing US state - by - state licensing regime front, we learned in August that California had completely overhauled its proposed digital currency bill, effectively kicking the can down the road till next year.

The ability of regimes like Kim Jong Un's North Korea to mine or steal cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin is a new reason to be cautious in treating these commodities as currencies.

The U.S. dollar is being tipped to rise to euro parity on belief that President - elect Donald Trump will ditch current policy in favor of a high - spend, low - tax regime; Bitcoin has been the best performing currency in the world for 5 of the past 6 years; US Patent and Trademark...