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Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
Sep 10, 2025
Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a yield spread in Treasurys versus their own sovereigns, plus the fact that if the dollar is going to continue rallying - and I think it will because it's a safe haven - then they get a currency translation gain as well.
The dollar is the reserve currency of the world.
I think one of the real issues that we're faced with is how we consume news, how the media is perceived, how fake news is gaining a degree of currency without criticism that is dangerous, in my judgement.
The euro is a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.
Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.
Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.
Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means.
In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.
The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm.
When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.
When you do business with people you need money. When you do business with God you need faith. Faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God.
Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.
The Federal Reserve Act as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency. I do not like to think that any law can be passed that will make it possible to submerge the gold standard in a flood of irredeemable paper currency.
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.
We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.
No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.
Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency.
We are entering a new phase of European politics. What is decisive is not only do we have a single currency area, but also that it is accompanied by a co-ordinated economic and financial policy. We must drive forward tax harmonisation in Europe.
There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.
I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.
We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.
The Debasement of World Currency:It Is Inflation, But Not As We Know It
Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.
The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world.
Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.
Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. You must learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Fitbit and the SenseCam give us a simple choice: participate or fade into a lonely obscurity.
The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
There are two types of depreciation. There is one where you're manipulating currencies. And that's not what Japan is doing.
America doesn't make product anymore. You have other countries devalue their currencies. They make it impossible.
You have companies over in different countries where they devalue their currency and they make it impossible for American companies to compete.
We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe. With its own currency, for example.
You know and I know that as soon as it's done, you have to get it out there. You want what's best for it. And especially in owning a label, which some days is the greatest thing for me and in some days is my demise because you see the truth and the work that goes into things and you see things happen and you see things not happen, and all you want in this world of currency right now is popularity, that's it!
We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state.
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.
With China, their primary weapon in China is what they've done with the devaluation of their currency.
Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.
Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.
China should have a currency which is a much higher value relative to the dollar and other things. What they're doing is keeping it low, artificially low. And I mean seriously artificial. I don't just mean a little bit low. I mean major low.
We take smaller companies and middle-sized companies, all around the world, and we do currency exchange for them; we raise bonds and equities for them; and we do inventory finance, trade finance, and custody of assets.
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years. China went into the World Trade Organization and agreed to play by certain rules. Instead, they are illegally subsidizing their exports, manipulating their currency, stealing all of our intellectual property, using sweatshops, using pollution havens. What happens is, our businesses and workers are playing that game with two hands tied behind their back.
It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.