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China's Gold Rush Migrants

The LRB Podcast

CHAPTER

Is There Something Quite Artificial About That?

Gold was more valuable than silver because it was so much rarerand you discover these huge deposits. The adoption of gold as the standard of the british and western european nd the united states economies, that keeps the demand for gold high. I think the analogy, obviously, will comed with the us. Dollar. To day, there's so many stes dollars around, but a youn h think the times round an or in your times, sir tha red an article saying that the us. Dollars is the strongest has been in two decades,. precisely because every transaction has to happen through dollars.

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