Jiang argues that Nixon's 1971 break with gold converted the dollar into a kind of tax paid for freedom and enabled over-financialization and industrial hollowing in the United States.
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Dollar tax
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"And you could argue that as part of this deal, they created something called the Bretton Woods. Okay? And the idea of the Bretton..."
"dollars, but you know what? Forget that. Forget that. Where U.S. dollar will not be pegged to anything, okay? So too bad. Just imagine..."
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