All bow before the almighty US dollar

Back in 1971, the world was suffering from a vast overabundance of dollars. American foreign investment and foreign aid coupled with inflationary US government policies had flooded the world with greenbacks. At the same time, the world – especially the United States – had too little gold. That was a problem because, unlike today, exchange […]
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