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>the US will need to find another way to sustain its currency

The threat of the US economy collapsing is plenty enough reason to strike new deals to sustain its currency.



Since economies are deeply interconnected it is clear that it is in nobody's interest to allow the US economy to collapse.

The problem of bimetallism (silver/gold) or just gold, is that they are scarce and not suitable to produce enough circulating currency for everyone, so a replacement seemed fair.

But fossil fuels are an environmental liability. Maybe the future is in some crypto-like thing.




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