The structure of the modern world is both an intuitive, extremely clear phenomenon and some kind of complex, complicated system. Take at least a monetary way of exchanging values. It seems to be clear that mankind needs a conditional exchange element for the distribution of goods and services between people. However after
Almost all of these kinds of explanations immediately raise questions: “Why are not everyone enough conditional elements of exchange?”, “Why in the 21st century with modern technologies of accounting and control of financial flows, poverty and hunger exist?”, and many others.
The answer to all questions is one, and it consists in human greed. Money, and in modern, global, understanding - currency, from ancient times to the present day is an insurmountable motivational factor that has done a lot of good and bad to humanity. They are a means of achieving the limited benefits of modern civilization for each person, forcing people to resort daily to the use of tremendous efforts in pursuit of them.
Foreign currency
In Russia, unlike the rest of the world, there was a certain, even experimental, period of time in which foreign money was a crime, and domestic banknotes lost the significance of the measure of greed. Then a socialist society was being built, approaching the embodiment of communist ideas.
However, today everyone knows the result of transformations of this kind. The ruble of that period was poorly convertible; inside the country, there was also little that was possible to buy. A foreign currency
served as a means of exchanging the great Soviet state with the countries of the bourgeois West, which in turn, and at one time, allowed capitalist enemies to bring down the threatening system of equality for so long. Since then, the population of the post-Soviet space has been biased towards national banknotes, and the majority used to save the accumulated foreign currency. Thus, by selling national banknotes to commercial banks, increasing domestic demand, usually for the US dollar (and other currencies), cheaper domestic money.
Operations with foreign currency
Today, different exchange rates, formed due to the impact of a large number of different factors on a particular monetary unit, open up the opportunity not only to save money in the currency of a more reliable state, but also to earn money through various monetary manipulations. Operations of this kind take place in the foreign exchange markets, with commercial and central banks taking the main part in them. They, with the help of currency exchanges, affect the economic instruments of supply and demand of monetary units, partly determining the exchange rate.
However, it, in turn, is formed not only through
foreign exchange trading, but also by determining the central bank of the country the amount of
money supply within the state, the real
national income of the state, prices and other factors.
Foreign currency loan
Obviously, due to the great popularity of dollar deposits among the population, commercial banks give loans in foreign currency for the purpose of earning. And since interest rates on deposits of foreign currency earn less, then the interest on the loan will be less. However, it is worth remembering about inflation and taking such loans only for insignificant purchases. After all, who knows when the ruble will fall again?