When a Congressional Budget Office researcher in 1995 reveals the multibillion-dollar extent of the government's subsidy to Fannie Mae and its brother institution, Freddie Mac (and that one-third of these benefits never reached borrowers), he suggests that "Congress may want to revisit the special relationship".
"To the extent dollars become more expensive to borrow, the Chinese central bank cannot easily do a complete offset".
To some extent the dollar's role here reflects self-sustaining increasing returns: people use dollars because the markets are thicker and more liquid, and the markets are thicker and more liquid because people use dollars.
And to some extent people hold dollars or dollar-denominated assets because the dollar is more liquid than other currencies.
However, he also dismissed the possibility of Canadian dollar strengthening to that extent by September 2012, when the proposed agreement would expire.
To the extent the dollar puts pressure on Treasurys, the trade balance may have some marginal impact on stocks.
Politico first reported on Hastert's office spending in December of 2009, but the total dollar figure and the extent of personal connections in the office's spending are new revelations.
To the extent that dollar-holders act like an informal cartel, then the biggest dollar-holders will set an example.
The cost can range anywhere from several hundred to several thousand dollars depending on the extent of the project, she said.
The million-dollar question is the extent to which art sales will migrate onto the web, particularly at the high end.
Organic food costs more than its conventional counterparts because our taxpayer dollars are not used to support organic farms to the same extent that our dollars are used to support conventional farms.
