bad currency

For example, international stocks, particularly emerging market stocks, have been underperforming for the past few years, perhaps due to low growth, bad currency trends and slowing productivity.

"I couldn't believe how anyone will exchange good currency for bad currency," Delawari told Reuters.

The merchants, who since 1749, through Hutchinson's excellent statesmanship, had been free from the results of a bad currency, greatly throve.

This is not to say that privacy is bad currency.

They partly neutralize, since in so far as the gold is commodity, it is bad currency, because liable to sale; and in so far as it is currency, it is bad commodity, because its exchange value interferes with its practical use.