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• Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

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  Dollars, Movement, Chance

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• If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.

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  Growing, Demand, Currency

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• Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

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  Trust, Conditions, Familiarity

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.55, Oxford University Press

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• Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

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  Japan, Europe, United States

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• The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.

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  Russia, Twenties, Dollar Bills

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• The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

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  Dollars, World, Currency

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• There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

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  Country, Growth, Trying

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• Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

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  Country, Balance, Movement

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• So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.

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  Balance, Currency, Payment

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• On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.

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  Europe, Differences, Important

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• In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.

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  Europe, United States, Security

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• The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.

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  Dollars, Depreciate, Imports

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• Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

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  Country, Europe, Eastern

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• Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

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  Perfection, Kitsch, Execution

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• High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

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  May, Kitsch, Said

  Robert C. Solomon (1970). “Entertaining Ideas: Popular Philosophical Essays, 1970-1990”

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• High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)

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  Art, Emotional, Class

  Robert C. Solomon (1970). “Entertaining Ideas: Popular Philosophical Essays, 1970-1990”

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