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Fred Sanders

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2. The cost of being regaled as the world's main reserve curecy comes with a price tag. Perpetual

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 10:21 AM

Dec 2018

trade deficits are not abnormal, the opposite would be abnormal for a nation that can print paper in unlimited amounts to pay for not world reserve currency nation's wares.

Also the price tags includes the cost of being the world's police force.

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