How exactly does a country peg its currency?

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Currency exchange is just like any other transaction, right? Someone wants to buy dollars with Euros, someone else wants the inverse, and they trade. How would a government manage to effectively regulate all of that, when those transactions are happening all over the world?

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The government can make a standing offer to buy and sell at a specific rate. If it has enough liquid assets to back up that offer, it can make it stick.

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