Between President Johnson's Vietnam War, his Great Society programs, and the rampant inflation they caused, the US was forced to
print more dollars than could be backed by gold.
Since the United States can always
print more dollars, there's virtually no reason it even needs to default.
So they countries either have to raise rates or more likely,
print more dollars to lower the spread.
Not exact matches
Generico now knows which image to use as it invests
more advertising
dollars in its website, GDN,
print ads, business cards and even TV commercials.
Unlike US
dollars, whose buying power the Fed can dilute by
printing more greenbacks, there simply won't be
more bitcoin available in the future.
More and more publications with Web presences are turning to paywalls both as a means of creating self - sustaining businesses and to recoup dollars lost from the collapse of print advertis
More and
more publications with Web presences are turning to paywalls both as a means of creating self - sustaining businesses and to recoup dollars lost from the collapse of print advertis
more publications with Web presences are turning to paywalls both as a means of creating self - sustaining businesses and to recoup
dollars lost from the collapse of
print advertising.
Another problem for newspapers: advertisers have far
more choices for their ad
dollars online than they did in the old
print world.
I bet you thought you were going to be mining
more bitcoins than the Federal Reserve
prints dollars, didn't you?
Mainly the socialist social programs of the U.S. will (
more) rapidly bankrupt the country if the U.S. government can't continue to
print dollars to inflate it's way out of it's incredible mountain of debt.
But the
more money the Fed
prints, the lower the value of the U.S.
dollar, and the higher the US
dollar - denominated price of a barrel of oil.
The rise vs. the
dollar also reflects the expectation that the Fed and the Treasury might be
printing even
more currency and Treasury debt at some point in the next 6 - 12 months.
Even in modern history, the gold backing up a single US
dollar from 1971 is worth vastly
more than the paper currency that was
printed 44 years ago.
I'm starting to wonder if the only difference between the U.S. Government and Al Qaeda is that Al Qaeda at least had the fiscal responsibility to use inexpensive boxcutters instead of
printing billions of
dollars and borrowing trillions
more to buy guided missiles and Predator drones.
«But despite its low price, it
prints labels and tags with far better quality than high - end thermal printers costing literally thousands of
dollars more.»
In other words, they
print more money (Bolivares Fuertes or BsF) than what they receive by selling oil (
Dollars).
It will be spending «tens of thousands» of
dollars over the next week on
print and digital advertising, pushing for a
more comprehensive congestion pricing scheme.
This
dollar buying also increases the number of USD in its own central bank, and that increases the «national value» of Canada, which increases the value of its own currency; however it can mitigate this, if it wishes to have a cheaper currency than the USD, by simply
printing more.
The markets are beginning to grow very weary over the strength of the
dollar, and inflation concerns are growing as deficit projections skyrocket and the Fed
prints more and
more money in an attempt to get credit flowing again.
Do an Internet search and you'll find her obituary and the odd article, but little
more and unless you feel like parting with several hundred
dollars, that out - of -
print autobiography is no easy read.
For instance, you might make a couple
dollars from a sale through a bookstore if you
print in large quantities (500 or
more).
Royalties run the publisher about three
dollars, and the costs of
printing, binding, and paper are a further two
dollars (
more for low - volume titles).
Taking a risk on a previously unknown author may mean gambling a few
dollars on an ebook, but there is significantly
more money invested in purchasing a
print edition, so readers want to know that the book has been carefully screened for quality.
No
more printing books, hauling them down to the post office, filling out address labels, and paying to ship them off to winners (which can cost hundreds of
dollars for a 100 - copy giveaway).
The price gap between the
print and e-versions of some top selling books has now narrowed to within a few
dollars - and in some cases, e-books are
more expensive than their
printed equivalents.
If your kid throws it in the toilet, it costs a few
dollars to replace a
print book and about a hundred
dollars to replace an e-reader (or
more, depending on the e-reader).
More importantly, it's a step in the right direction for bridging the divide between two very segmented parts of the publishing industry and an acknowledgement that both
print and digital can coexist rather than compete for reading consumers»
dollars.
Both Barnes and Noble and FastPencil have their companies» names at stake and will select books of the highest caliber for physical placement; where taking a risk on a previously unknown author may mean gambling a few
dollars on an ebook, there is significantly
more money invested in purchasing a
print edition, so readers want to know that the book has been carefully screened for quality.
Some publishers were able to recover their costs simply by offering the digital version for one
more dollar to their current
print subscribers or by sourcing one single sponsor.
At least, that's what I was told when I noted that the Kindle edition of Jo Walton's FARTHING is several
dollars more expensive than the perfectly - in -
print mass - market paperback edition.
That's right, paying a few
dollars more on ebooks is totally killing readers slowly or making them poorer or dumber??? The whole point of ebooks is that it is already cheaper than
print version.
As
more Pre-Orders are placed for a title, the status bar will increase, coming one step closer to its
dollar amount goal for
print publication.
Of course, overall
print book sales ($ 4,030.1 M) were still
more than 4 times the
dollar value of e-book sales.
I have a hardbound / dj all in one version of the Trilogy which I don't make
more than a
dollar or two on per copy because it costs so darned much to
print.
As Michael Cader pointed out in Publishers Lunch, «
Print sales are down
more [than ebook sales] in percentage terms, and down
more in aggregate
dollars.»
Print - on - demand books are convenient (you don't have to spend hundreds of dollars on a large print run and hope you can sell them), but they are also much more expensive to print, meaning your profits are
Print - on - demand books are convenient (you don't have to spend hundreds of
dollars on a large
print run and hope you can sell them), but they are also much more expensive to print, meaning your profits are
print run and hope you can sell them), but they are also much
more expensive to
print, meaning your profits are
print, meaning your profits are less.
You note that
print returns «20 cents of profit on each
dollar» versus 52.5 cents for ebooks,
more than 2-1/2 as much.
When I read The Business of Media the other night I realized three
dollars got me a condensed version of what I'd normally pay at least $ 9.99 for (as a Kindle book) and
more like $ 20 + (as a
print book).
In fact, ebooks have no
printing / binding / distribution costs, and near zero return expenses, plus the marketing
dollars they spend are format agnostic, so they are even
more profitable to publishers.
Everyone measures value in
dollars or other currency, but they fluctuate
more than gold in the sense that they are
printed and increased far
more easily and quickly than the supply of gold, or silver for that matter, can be.
Obviously the
more the Fed's
print the less value the
dollar will have.
US
dollars, or US Federal Reserve Notes to be
more precise, can be
printed ad nauseam by one bank that is totally private and is never audited.
So, earnings may be improving, but sales are not improving which would seem to suggest that further raw materials price increases will contract profit margins, and that the margin growth in the past year and half can be partially attributed to the fall in raw materials prices and the price of oil... The
more money the system
prints, the less oil there is per
dollar, which theoretically should compress margins for just about every business besides the oil companies...
So you're assumption is correct: as the US Federal Reserve
prints more money and that money finds its way to Hong Kong banks, the Hong Kong banks will be able to issue
more Hong Kong
dollars which will have an inflationary affect.
> German authorities had found a trove of 1,280 paintings, drawings, and
prints worth
more than a billion
dollars in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt.
Yes, I know / You've argued before that 17 trillion
dollars of debt is meaningless because the government can just
print more money.
The lawsuit alleges that requiring the tobacco companies to add these warnings to their product will violate their free speech rights; cost millions of
dollars to
print; and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy
more prominently than their own brands.
In August 2011, however, four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the federal government claiming that requiring the gnarly warnings to accompany their product will violate their free speech rights, cost millions of
dollars to
print, and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy
more prominently than their own brands.
On Wednesday, the FDA campaign may have died out altogether, as U.S. District Judge Richard Leon granted summary judgment in favor of five tobacco companies who objected that the proposed warnings would violate their free speech rights, cost millions of
dollars to
print and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy
more prominently than their own brands.
Compared to the title insurance premiums, the legal fees are a bargain because at least the lawyer is actually doing something useful and beneficial while the title insurance premium provides coverage not much above the level of a scam (read up on that industry's abysmal record of burying gaps in coverage in the turgid fine
print and equally abysmal record of not paying claims that are
more than a few hundred
dollars worth of tax arrears).
Co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, thinks Bitcoin is better than gold and the U.S.
dollar, which he called «phony,» because the government can always
print more.