#dollar

There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

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Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#chances #dollar #euro #moderate #movements

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

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The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

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The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

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The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

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To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

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Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. ↗

— George Soros

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If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money. ↗

— Jonathan Frid

#continue #doing #dollars #get #going

Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity. ↗

— George Soros

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