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#014 Nik Bhatia On The Coexistence Of The Dollar And Bitcoin

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The Rise and Fall of the US Dollar

In 2007 August of 2007 something I write about in the book the euro dollar system which is the offshore system of the US dollar currency that's issued by historically European banks broke down. The Fed came in and instituted a foreign exchange swap line with the European central bank four months later to backstop European banks that had lent dollars into existence outside of the Federal Reserve system. That is my framework for the dollar it is a post August oh seven dollar in which the Fed has basically become the lender of only resort for the entire world's banking system, he says. He doesn't think we are headed for the death of the dollar especially versus other currencies like the euro the Chinese you want or pick any other

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