26/09/2000 - 21:00

The golden currency

26/09/2000 - 21:00

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SINCE the 1970s – some would say the late 60s – the US dollar has risen above gold as a fiduciary standard to become the currency others are measured by.The Greenback was even recently adopted as the currency for a struggling South American nation.

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