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hard currency

Currency commonly accepted across the world. Hard currencies are usually those of the Western industrialized nations. US dollars and UK pounds sterling are two of the most popular hard currencies. Retailers in countries with soft currencies often prefer to take hard currency, instead of their national currency, in exchange for goods and services.



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The money now regularly surpasses traditional foreign direct investment and long ago left tourism in the dust as a generator of hard currency.
The ability to boost military spending is a fnnction of being 'prosperous,'" continues Hawkins, "and the massive American trade deficit with China gives Beijing the hard currency needed to finance foreign weapon acquisitions--mostly Russian systems designed to attack American targets.
Thus, he explained, the only way for Syrians to obtain hard currency is by exporting Syrian labor to Lebanon.
 
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