What does it mean for a currency to be backed by something?
In: Economics
Sometimes currency has no value because no one has faith in the government monetary policy…..printing trillions of dollars with nothing to support the value (Zimbabwe, Venezuela )
So the government can back/support the currency by having alternative assets in reserve
For many countries this is a national gold reserve; or a store of US dollars or euros….something that is stable and globally stable
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