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179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

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The U.S. Dollar and the US Treasury

The united states is heavily reliant on international confidence for its current economic plans. The six trillion dollars or so of spending that the biden administrations announced this year ar that a pretty large chunk of us. We are going to exceed the post 19 forty five debt to g d p ratio very shortly, if we haven't already. A lot of this depends for its er viability on the us Dollar and the us Tenure treasury remaining the dominant currency and risk free security.

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