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

Still, this arrangement means that savings in any fiat currency are vulnerable to the decisions of the central bank that manages it.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 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

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

Then the monstrous red thing, bounded across the neck and he flung himself fiat while the tribe shrieked.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

How the fiats of the Invisible King are to be issued, we are not informed.

From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by William Archer