fiat

Investors, politicians and economists said they wanted a world of fiat currencies with floating exchange rates, and they’re getting it good and hard in Japan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

“Legislative fiat may not take the place of fact in the judicial determination of issues involving life, liberty, or property,” Justice Pierce Butler wrote in Western & Atlantic Railroad v.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

It looks like the so-called debasement trade, fleeing the dollar and other fiat currencies for gold, is over for now.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

At the same time they also note possible black-swan event risks like crises caused by sovereign debt, food or fiat collapse.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie fiat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand.

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

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

Soon thereafter, the country instituted secular   laws to replace traditional religious fiats.

From The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency