Huge swings in the value of Bitcoin mean profits on goods or services supplied can be wiped out when it depreciates; prices listed in Bitcoins have to be monitored and adjusted frequently.
During the 2008 food crisis, the surge in food price inflation worldwide was caused primarily by rising oil prices, depreciating U.S. dollar, increasing demand for biofuels, and export restrictions imposed by leading food producing countries (Heady and Fan 2008).
The search for used cars is inherently more time consuming, as each car is unique, making comparison shopping much trickier, and used cars, for dealers, are depreciating assets, setting high prices to begin with and randomly reducing the price over time as the car sits on the lot.
For the first time in living memory, we now have two major central banks — the Fed and the Bank of Japan — openly trying to stimulate the economy by gassing up asset prices and depreciating their currency.
Both carriers posted five consecutive quarterly losses in the run-up to the current fiscal year, with India's aviation market affected by high domestic fuel prices, a depreciating local currency, and the ever-present shadow of protectionism for flag-carrier Air India.
Deficit countries were supposed to adjust by following the "rules of the game", raising interest rates and reducing the money supply, thus lowering price levels, depreciating real exchange rates, and improving trade balances.
China's price deflation and the dollar's weakness mean that the yuan is actually depreciating in real terms (though it is nonsense to accuse China of exporting deflation: its cheap exports are changing relative prices, not generating deflation overall).
Uganda's economy has tumbled this year, with the local currency greatly depreciating, while food and oil prices have increased.
In the three months prior to July 1994 goods in shops were priced in the old, depreciating cruzeiro and the stable new URV, linked roughly one-to-one to the dollar (though, unlike in Argentina a few years earlier, not pegged to it).
With a floating exchange rate, however, the adjustment comes about by reducing the demand for Brazilian currency and depreciating the exchange rate, thereby reducing the prices paid by foreigners.
