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John Major champions new European currency – archive

Edit The Guardian 21 Jun 2016
21 June 1990. The ecu, or European currency unit, would be an alternative to full monetary union ... Moreover, would the new proposals have street credibility unless the ecu became common legal tender?. But that doesn’t alter the positive side of Mr Major’s gradualist approach ... Given time - and legal respectability - once the ecu is released from captivity, it could become the common currency which the Government has until now eschewed ... ....

It’s Francs, Gold If U.K. Goes and Euros, Sterling If It Stays

Edit Bloomberg 21 Jun 2016
The British are leaving! The British are leaving! Well, they may be, as U.K. voters prepare for a June 23 European Union membership referendum. Brexit would almost certainly be a momentous event for markets, albeit unlikely to compare to the panic that followed the accidental grounding of a Russian sub off the U.S ... If the U.K ... found ... says ... Switzerland’s legal tender already has reached its strongest level this year versus the euro ... ....

What Modern Brands Can Learn From the Victorians

Edit Huffington Post 20 Jun 2016
If you had been strolling through Leicester on a crisp winter's day in 1881, you might have spotted a strange sight ... Not surprisingly, crowds gathered ... "All that is solid melts into air." ... Since defacing the Queen's image was illegal, he imported a quarter-of-a-million centimes - still legal tender in the 1860s - and stamped them with an exhortation to buy Pears soap ... AK Balsam's messages, for example, were neither legal, honest nor true....

Cash-strapped Zimbabwe government delays military salaries

Edit Atlanta Journal 19 Jun 2016
Zimbabwe's cash-strapped government has announced it will delay paying June salaries for the military and police by up to two weeks. It said other workers on the state payroll will only receive their salaries next month ... dollar and other currencies as its legal tender. A shortage of the U.S ... ....

Zimbabwe Delays Military Pay by Two Weeks Due to Dollar Shortage

Edit Bloomberg 19 Jun 2016
Army and airforce personnel in Zimbabwe will be paid two weeks after their usual payday because the cash-strapped finance ministry can’t meet its wage obligation on time ... A shortage of dollar notes in recent months has worsened Zimbabwe’s economic crisis ... dollars, though South African rand, euros, British pounds and several other currencies are legal tender ... Treasury confirmed the authenticity of the document ... LEARN MORE. ....

'General Hospital' fan recap: Dead man walking

Edit Entertainment Weekly 18 Jun 2016
Season 54 . Episodes 50–54 . Aired Jun 13-17, 2016 Related. 'General Hospital' fan recap. The destruction of #Julexis. 'General Hospital' fan recap. Where is Prince Nikolas?. 'General Hospital' fan recap. Fashion, flatline, and a fall ... Niall Carradine and Huxley Lynch ... skills improve tenfold ... “Zero Dark Flirty” peruses the responses, stopping to ponder “Legal Tender”… and please don’t let it be Paul Horsnby ... ....

Sierra Leone economy facing bankruptcy as Koroma restricts use of foreign currency

Edit Sierra Leone Telegraph 18 Jun 2016
Sierra Leone Telegraph. 18 June 2016 ... This is the text message that president Koroma sent to the people of Sierra Leone this week, curtailing their right to free trade ... H.E ... “It is certainly perplexing that the government whose business should be to formulate and enforce policies and make prudential regulations for the good of all is “pleading” with its citizens to use the country’s legal tender in order to save it” ... ....

Influence of Dollar against Leone is a mess says Hon Hassan Sheriff

Edit Sierra Express Media 16 Jun 2016
Member of Parliament for Constituency 053 Hon. Hassan B ... Chairman Hon. Hassan B ... Dr ... Hon ... He retreated by requesting from the Bank Governor to provide with Members of Parliament with development of long and short term progress reports plan and amongst others in order for them to better understand the security of the country’s legal tender of the status of the Leone against the dollar in the country ... Hon ... Hon. Komba E ... Claude D.M ... Dickson M ... Dr ... ....

RBI to issue Rs 20 banknotes with inset letter 'S'

Edit Deccan Chronicle 15 Jun 2016
Mumbai ... "All banknotes in the denomination of Rs 20 issued by the Bank in the past will continue to be legal tender," it clarified. ....

NIA seeks home dept nod to probe fake currency cases

Edit The Times of India 15 Jun 2016
Kochi. After repeated seizures of fake Indian currency notes (FICN) in the state, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will approach the home department to transfer cases in which the value of seized currencies is high ... All the seized fake bills were of Rs 1,000 denomination ... In some past cases, the NIA had found that the physical features and the paper used for the FICNs seized in India matched with the legal tender of Pakistan....

Here's why people are flocking to cryptocurrencies

Edit Business Insider 15 Jun 2016
Andrew Burton/Getty Images. When an asset rises by almost 30% in a few weeks, it tends to attract attention. Recently, that asset was bitcoin (BTC). The price of BTC in dollars rose from $454 on May 23 to $590 on June 6th. When an asset doubles in a matter of a few months, it tends to attract attention ... (Source) ... "Fiat money is currency that a government has declared to be legal tender, but is not backed by a physical commodity ... (Source) ... ....

Ron Paul thinks a 1982 study on gold is 'remarkably timely'

Edit Business Insider 14 Jun 2016
competitive currencies, repeal of legal tender, redefining the dollar as a certain unit of gold, juridical changes that enforce the monetary clauses of the Constitution as they read in plain language, the application of standard free-enterprise competition to the banking industry, and more ... But even without reforming the dollar, it should be legal ......

Sierra Leone News: Governor Marah Embarks on Limiting Dollar Use in the Economy

Edit Awoko 13 Jun 2016
The legal tender of Sierra Leone is the LEONE but some businesses, service providers and even landlords demand for payment in Dollars. The Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone Dr. Kaifala Marah has embarked on limiting the use of the United States Dollar in the economy ... “The legal tender in Sierra Leone is the Leone therefore you should be asking for Leones not Dollars,” Governor Marah told representatives of airlines on June 8 ... H. E Dr....
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