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(回答先: 空耳リンク：アルバム売り上げ歴代２位の大物ラップ・スター、Jay-Z：「ドルはもうお終い。ユーロが新しいファッション」 投稿者 Sun Shine 日時 2007 年 11 月 20 日 11:19:30)
投稿されているかもしれないが、11月7日付けAPより、アメリカの財政赤字が史上最高の9兆ドルに達したというニュースと、11月16日付けBBCより、インドで最も有名な観光名所のひとつ、タジマハールでは、入場料を従来のドルとルピーの二本立てから、今後はルピーのみに限ることにしたとのニュース。
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071107/national_debt.html?.v=1
AP
National Debt at Record $9 Trillion
Wednesday November 7, 5:59 pm ET
By Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer
National Debt Hits $9 Trillion for the First Time
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The national debt has hit $9 trillion for the first time.
The Treasury Department, which issues a daily accounting of the debt, said Wednesday that the debt subject to limit was at $9 trillion on Tuesday. It was $8.996 trillion on Monday.
Last month, Congress passed and President Bush signed into law an increase in the government's borrowing ceiling to $9.815 trillion. It was the fifth debt limit increase since Bush took office in January 2001. Those increases have totaled $3.865 trillion.
The administration contends the rising debt reflects such factors as slow economic growth during the 2001 recession, the Sept. 11 attacks and the cost of fighting terrorism.
Democrats place much of the blame for the exploding debt on Bush's first-term tax cuts, which they say are tilted to the wealthy. The administration says those tax cuts helped to jump-start the economy and resulted in falling budget deficits in recent years.
The tax cuts are set to expire at the end of 2010. The administration and Republicans in Congress want to see them made permanent; many Democrats would like to see them revamped to provide more benefits to lower and middle-income taxpayers.
The budget deficit for the 2007 budget year, which ended Sept. 30, was $162.8 billion, the lowest in five years.
In 2004, the deficit was $413 billion, a record in dollar terms.
The national debt is the total of the annual budget deficits plus money that the government borrows from the Social Security and other government trust funds.
The total national debt is actually higher than $9 trillion because it includes borrowing by some agencies that are not covered by the congressional debt limit. That total was $9.086 trillion on Tuesday.
It took the country from George Washington until Ronald Reagan to reach the first $1 trillion in debt.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7098370.stm
Dollars no good for the Taj Mahal
By Jyotsna Singh
BBC News, Delhi
The Taj Mahal is visited by millions of tourists every year
Foreign tourists to many of India's most famous landmarks will no longer be able to pay the entrance fee in dollars, the government says.
The ruling is aimed at safeguarding tourism revenues following the recent falls in the dollar.
Until now, foreign tourists to sites such at the Taj Mahal have had the option of paying in dollars or rupees.
The ruling will affect nearly 120 sites of interest run by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
Of these, at least 27 are World Heritage sites, including the Taj Mahal.
'International practices'
The ruling is due to be implemented next week. Entrance fees to the sites in question will be either 250 rupees ($6.35) or 100 rupees ($2.54).
"These rates have been fixed in line with international practices, and in order to take care of the fluctuation in the dollar rates," a spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism told the BBC.
Officials say the ministry wanted to act fast so that the revenues are not hit.
Indians only pay 20 or 10 rupees to enter ASI sites, a difference often questioned by foreign tourists.
But officials say there is nothing wrong with this because most Indians earn far less than the foreign visitors.
"The uniform rate applied by most foreign countries are often too high for most Indians anyway," the tourism ministry official told the BBC .
However, the Indian government has also decided that nationals from the regional South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation will not have to pay the higher rate.
Nor will people holding a government-issued People of Indian Origin (PIO) card.
India earned more than $6.5bn in foreign exchange from more than four million foreign tourists to the country last year.
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