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Lyn Alden and Jeff Booth - E45

Swan Signal Live - A Bitcoin Show

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What Happened to the Dollar?

In 1971 Nixon took us off the gold standard. And so from there, we've been on a floating exchange rate system where all these different currencies around the world are not backed by anything in particular. We're starting to see Russia and China increasingly interested in paying for their oil in euros instead of U.S. dollars.

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