• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    The doller has won purely because it is respected around the world

    That is not correct, dollar won because US, being the economical winner of WW2, made all other notable capitalist economies dependent on it in Bretton Woods accords and effectively hegemonised oil trade in much of the world.

    • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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      Well yes. That is why it was respected. America used it’s delayed entry to build it’s reduction capability. Used that to help win. Then not having exhausted it took advantage.

      But while correct. It’s a more accurate way of saying the doller was respected. As a strong trade currency other nations could use.