#currency

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today. ↗

— George Noory

#calculated #creating #currency #deficit #deficits

Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency. ↗

— John W. Snow

#currency #exchange #i #make #our

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#among #currency #information #inside #internet

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience. ↗

— Harry Golden

#currency #earned #every #experience #literary

I hired a counterfeiter the other day. I told him, “As for your salary, how much you make is really up to you.” I love a business model where the employee pays the employer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#business-model #cash #counterfeit #counterfeiter #currency

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. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#banks #china #currency #exports #fair

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#become #commodities #country #currency #gold

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#else #out #run #someone #unusual

The dollar isn’t worth its weight in gold, and the pound isn’t worth its weight in ounces. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dollar #fiat-currency #gold #money #change

Once an object escapes, you have to assume that another class or thread may, maliciously or carelessly, misuse it. This is a compelling reason to use encapsulation: it makes it practical to analyze programs for correctness and harder to violate design constraints accidentally. ↗

— Brian Goetz

#java #programming #design