This unique role — no other currency comes close to serving as global currency — feeds demand for dollars on foreign exchange markets, raising the dollar's price.
In addition, globalization and the very process of European integration built around the shared euro currency feed fears about loss of national identity.
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Caught in the midst of a deepening economic crisis, with massive currency depreciation feeding into a cycle of stagflation, the economy is yet again at the center of this year's elections, with all candidates feverishly promising a new direction in the country's economic management.
"This currency issue feeds into domestic politics in both countries," says Eswar Prasad, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
After he puts together enough currency to feed himself, he finds an abandoned baby boy at a noodle kiosk and takes him home.
Spending cuts and tax increases aimed at trimming debt and addressing the financial crises in bailed-out euro zone countries, and the rising rate of joblessness in much of the currency bloc, "are feeding off of each other," said Mark Cliffe, chief economist at ING Group.
The root cause of China's muddle is its weak-currency policy, which is feeding an artificially large trade surplus.
The government's decision this month to make the American dollar the country's new currency has further fed the discontent.
"There is no cause for panic that seems to have gripped the currency market and that is feeding into other markets.
HONG KONG — China's currency rose steeply against the dollar this week, feeding speculation that Chinese authorities, yielding to international pressure and economic realities at home, were allowing their currency to appreciate more rapidly.
