In coming weeks, the Congress is to debate a law that would protect dollar deposits in Argentina.

The founders placed a one dollar deposit for the land.

So dollar deposits are already earning less - and, on top, the Fed looks less worried by inflation than other central banks.

People who wanted to check out books but were not members could do so by paying a one dollar deposit plus ten cents for each week.

Instead, they are choosing to lift their dollar deposits.

Some Chinese companies and families are allowed to keep part of their foreign revenues as dollar deposits at Chinese banks.

European banks have also increased their dollar deposits at the Fed.

They put the total amount of new dollar deposits in Mexican banks at less than $50 million.

UK banks thus began to take dollar deposits to on lend in place of the restricted use of sterling.

These dollar deposits became larger as the price of oil, priced in US$, rose during the early and late 1970's.