fiat

Renewed investor concern that high government deficits could erode the value of fiat currencies is one reason behind the shift in thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

That is, Saylor uses investors’ fiat currencies to buy Bitcoin.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Security shouldn’t be dictated by administrative fiat; it should be treated as a critical competitive feature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

He noted the erosion of trust in the fiat system, the unprecedented money printing and the accumulation of sovereign debt.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

“Yeah. He came fiat out and said he wasn’t going to sell the junk.”

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

Once spoken, the fiats cannot change without wounding the leader’s credibility.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022

Yoo makes it clear that he thinks such executive fiats would be unconstitutional.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2020

President Dwight Eisenhower, who had put himself above the fray, began to fight back with information leaks and administrative fiats.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2020

With aristocratic privileges created and enforced by government fiats there were few meaningful opportunities for the common citizen to advance their business interests.

From Economist ● Sep. 2, 2013

After having travelled about twenty miles we reached a higher and drier region, where, water being scarce, cultivation was confined to the little fiats bordering the streams.

From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Alfred Russel Wallace