Eli5: Why is the U.S. Dollar so powerful?
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Well. You see, you’re only allowed to buy oil by the barrel. In American dollars.
When you try to buy it using some other currency…unfortunate events seem to happen to you. Purely happenstance, of course, but it has made nations superstitious and thus it artificially reinforced the value of the dollar on the world exchange.
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