Mr. Obama has tried to use the rising public anger over China's trade advantage to argue to Chinese leaders that the United States would no longer tolerate deliberate currency manipulation, a point Mr. Obama made repeatedly in a meeting last week with Wen Jiabao, China's prime minister.
The price of a single bitcoin had more than quintupled to $265 amid a banking crisis in Cyprus and new signs from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network that regulators will tolerate the currency.
If passed, it would send an important message to China and the administration that Congress will no longer tolerate illegal currency manipulation.
Can we likewise tolerate the rising currency of the "sport utility truck," or S.U.T., neologism, or should we opt for the descriptive but indefensibly clumsy "four-door light-duty pickup" or "truck-sedan"?
World leaders are acting on threats to dump the dollar while the Obama administration shows a willingness to tolerate a weaker currency in an effort to boost exports and the economy as long as it doesn't drive away the nation's creditors.
The dollar tumbled to a record low against the euro after the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, suggested he would tolerate a stronger European currency.
The yen fell after a report in Japan said the United States would tolerate a weaker Japanese currency; the White House denied the report.
ignored or tolerated breaches of its currency trading rules, said an options trader at the center of an investigation into losses of as much as 180 million Australian dollars ($140 million).
They lent to banks, purchased securities, financed securities, intervened in currency markets, tolerated immense increases in float (i.e., in the volume of checks written but uncleared).
How long would a newly independent Scotland (or Quebec) tolerate the strictures of a currency union in which they had little say?
