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The dollar is the worlds reserve currency. American printing presses have more life in them than other countries.

Look at the countries that have opposed that since the beginning of the millennium: Libya and Iraq saw, ahem, “kinetic interventions”, and Iran and Venezuela are still being crushed by sanctions for daring to price their oil in Euros and/or RMB.




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