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The phrase "a dollar today" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the value of money in the present context, often in relation to economic concepts like inflation or investment.
Example: "Investing a dollar today can yield significant returns in the future."
Alternatives: "one dollar now" or "a dollar at present".
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Given that people are more concerned about having money now, economists posit that we are willing to spend less than a dollar today to prevent a dollar's worth of damage in a year, or two years, or a generation.
As I explained last year, that label only works if we are under the delusion that a dollar 100 years ago should be valued the same as a dollar today.
A dollar today will buy 1.60 reals; a euro, 2.27 reals.
A dollar today, he pointed out, buys you what a nickel bought a century ago, largely because so much money has been printed.
It is a universal truth of human nature that a dollar tomorrow is worth less to us than a dollar today.
By and large we have gone back to thinking that a dollar tomorrow is as good as a dollar today; and to some extent believing makes it so.
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They fell to less than a dollar last year.
"A penny today may be a dollar tomorrow," warned Councilman Carter Burden, according to court papers.
Even San Francisco's iconic cable cars went up a dollar last month, to $6.
Shares of Juno, which traded at $41.63 in January, closed under a dollar last week.
Citi's shares fell from a high of $55.12 in 2007 to about a dollar early last spring, and now trade at $3.31.
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