hard currency
noun
: money that comes from a country with a strong government and economy and that is not likely to lose its value
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Experts long suspected that Cuba was reselling some of the oil from Venezuela for hard currency.
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Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
By hard currency, Dalio is referring to assets outside the financial system.
—Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Local and regional African credit rating agencies argue that their global counterparts overweight hard currency constraints and external shocks while underestimating domestic resilience and informal economic activity.
—Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 12 Jan. 2026
Tourism, a major source of hard currency for the country, remains far below pre-pandemic levels; analyses using official Cuban data show that tourist arrivals in 2025 were less than half the number in 2019.
—Ricardo Torres, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
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Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
By hard currency, Dalio is referring to assets outside the financial system.
—Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Local and regional African credit rating agencies argue that their global counterparts overweight hard currency constraints and external shocks while underestimating domestic resilience and informal economic activity.
—Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 12 Jan. 2026
Tourism, a major source of hard currency for the country, remains far below pre-pandemic levels; analyses using official Cuban data show that tourist arrivals in 2025 were less than half the number in 2019.
—Ricardo Torres, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
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“Hard currency.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20currency. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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