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Behind the Bastards

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Do You Need Us Dollars?

Since about 19 71 or so, when we went off the gold standard, we have a system of central banks dominated by the dollar. And the dollar represents about 60 % of settlement of all trade. However, you're like, say to tinisa, the tinisian dollar is accepted almost nowhere as payment,. Yes and one of the big things, it's not the sole driver, and people sort of emff emphasize this. I'm going to caviat this immediately because people will yell at me. One of the very important things about the dollar is that the dollar is what you can buy oil in. This is extremely important, because if you are a society in the world, you

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