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Currency board, a Common card
In public finance, a currency board is a mechanism by which a monetary authority is required to maintain a fixed exchange rate with a foreign currency by fully backing the commitment with foreign holdings, or reserves.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 101
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 101 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Currency board quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Currency board card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Although a currency board is a common way of ______ a fixed exchange rate, it is not the only way.
Answer
maintaining. Although a currency board is a common way of maintaining a fixed exchange rate, it is not the only way. From the Currency board article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Administrative divisions of the Dutch East Indies. Administrative divisions of the Dutch East Indies 67 · Currency board 61 · Scroll 56 · Stornoway Airport 53 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Scroll. Scroll 42,000 · Adobe RGB color space 19,000 · Currency board 13,000 · Safran Ardiden 9,800 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This policy objective requires the conventional objectives of a central bank to be subordinated to the exchange rate target.
- Although a currency board is a common way of maintaining a fixed exchange rate, it is not the only way.
- Countries often keep exchange rates within a narrow band by regulating balance of payments through various capital controls, or through international agreements, among other methods.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Currency board article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Currency board
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Currency board (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Artist is Elihu Vedder (1836–1923). Photographed 2007 by Carol Highsmith (1946–), who expl, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
