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Their debts and obligations are similarly fixed.

Naturally, the spread would automatically converge to the threshold, but how much would be sold?

The Hobby Eberly telescope in Texas also has a fixed angle of inclination.

It is a supplement to the IEEE Std 802.16 2004, and so the actual standard is 802.16 2004 as amended by 802.16e 2005.

The spread of the rate between 10 year German and Spanish bonds has reached a new historically high level.

The ECB s long term refinancing operation enabled Spanish and Italian banks to buy their own countries bonds and earn a large spread.

A fixed rate was seen as a nominal anchor against inflation, forcing disciplined monetary and fiscal policies.

In this environment, the Security Council s frozen composition is imposing significant limits on the international community s capacity to address global challenges.

Of course, the Fed s policy reversal could hurt countries that maintain fixed or, like China, managed floating exchange rates.

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Whatever Lafontaine may think, the fixed exchange rates he has called for won't be part of the world economy.

Like Argentina, Greece has a fixed exchange rate, a long history of fiscal deficits, and an even longer history of sovereign defaults.

By contrast, if the threshold is set low enough to bring spreads down from panic levels, purchases will be more substantive, but at the expense of reducing considerably the effective haircut on private holders.

After all, by capping spreads, the buyback facility would limit the downside risk while providing incentives to hold the bonds and wait for the upside a good reason, perhaps, to make the facility a temporary offer. By contrast, if the threshold is set low enough to bring spreads down from panic levels, purchases will be more substantive, but at the expense of reducing considerably the effective haircut on private holders.

East Asia s victims of currency crises were, like most other nations, on fixed rates pegged to the dollar, other major hard currencies, or baskets of currencies. The central bank promised to redeem its own currency on demand by any holders, foreign or domestic, in prescribed amounts of hard currencies.

East Asia s victims of currency crises were, like most other nations, on fixed rates pegged to the dollar, other major hard currencies, or baskets of currencies.

Or they can choose not to have a device at all, opting instead to pay a flat fee based on the average number of miles driven by all state residents.

It is to be hoped that all have concluded, in the wake of a year of crisis, that fixed but adjustable exchange rates are a bad idea.

Fixed income also has been volatile as the market anticipates a rate hike, and the pattern is somewhat similar to what equities experience.

During the 1950 s and 1960 s, Europeans amassed a huge stash of US Treasury bills in an effort to maintain fixed exchange rate pegs, much as China has done today.

If exchange rates were fixed but capital could move freely, capital flight from the country would generate pressures to end loose monetary policies.

The thinking behind the new arrangement was that an independent and flexible monetary policy would serve the nation s interest better than a fixed exchange rate that tied the naira to the pound.

Finally, and perhaps most important, such an approach would be more politically attractive than a fixed carbon tax, especially if it is introduced at a time of sharply declining oil prices.

But the effectiveness of a fixed exchange rate is determined by how developments in the export sector influence domestic industries and the national economy as a whole. If growth in the trade sector boosts that of domestic non trade sectors, then a fixed exchange rate will not put pressure on the external balance of payments as demand for imports rises.

If growth in the trade sector boosts that of domestic non trade sectors, then a fixed exchange rate will not put pressure on the external balance of payments as demand for imports rises.

In the IMF, the US Treasury, among certain German officials and in other powerful financial centers, there is now deep suspicion of anything that remotely looks like a fixed exchange rate.

In Spain, banks have historically issued 30 year mortgages whose interest rates are indexed to interbank rates such as Euribor, with a small spread (often less than 100 basis points) fixed for the lifetime of the mortgage.

Governments that pursue policies whether US fiscal laxity or China s exchange rate peg that create unsustainable imbalances do so for what they regard as important political reasons.

But soon after taking the helm at the Economics Ministry in March 2001, Domingo Cavallo pointed an accusing finger at the central bank. Notwithstanding the fixed exchange rate, which limited monetary growth to that of the bank's dollar reserves, he argued that economic recovery required an expansionary credit policy.

Indeed, the economist Robert Mundell, whose work on optimal monetary zones is credited with laying the theoretical groundwork for the euro, insists that China should maintain its fixed exchange rate as a necessary part of its current phase of economic development.

But the employers also quickly learned that the best kind of employment contract is one that offers employee not just a fixed contract, but also the possibility of a bonus, a sort of gift for good performance that is outside of any contract provisions.

But this time, with the dollar appreciating against other major currencies in recent months, the relatively fixed rate between the dollar and the renminbi has caused China s currency to strengthen in terms of its real effective rate.