Glossary
The dominant trade and savings currency for the international system; Jiang treats the dollar's hold on this role as temporary and historically abnormal.
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global reserve currency
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...talked about this before but the u.s dollar as a global reserve currency it's a historical accident and it's never happened before in human..."
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Glossary
A unique world-historical condition where one currency becomes the basis for valuing other currencies and for participating in global trade.
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Used as the former basis of U.S. power that encouraged global trade and allowed the United States to benefit from dollar-denominated transactions.
model
Jiang treats the global reserve currency not as a timeless necessity but as an accidental outcome of World War II that let the United States impose one currency as the basis for global value.
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Transnational capital deliberately moved economic gravity from the United States to China, but China has not become hegemon because it does not want global reserve-currency and overseas military-base responsibilities, while America also resists.
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"...talked about this before but the u.s dollar as a global reserve currency it's a historical accident and it's never happened before in human..."
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"...At this point in history, the US dollar was the global reserve currency. The global reserve currency is unique in human history. We've never..."
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"...American strategy before was, okay, before we were the world's global reserve currency. And as a result, we encouraged global trade. But now that..."
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"...So as I said before, the United States was the global reserve currency. And that meant basically that for every transaction that you made,..."
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"prevents it from imploding is the fact that all debt in China is localized instead of nationalized all right? So even though these Chinese..."
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"...doesn't really want to take the responsibility of being the global reserve currency as well as having military bases overseas all right? So China..."
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"...needs to do is destroy the US dollar as the global reserve currency."
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"...the US to invade Ukraine. The US dollar as the global reserve currency is that it would remain politically neutral."
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"...the U.S. dollar, okay? The U.S. dollar is the world's global reserve currency and therefore America has unlimited financing, all right? So as you..."
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"...for you the first is the u.s dollar as a global reserve currency you hate this idea because eventually you become the guarantor of..."
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"the idea of u.s dollar as a global reserve currency um and also as as points out it also funds the military industrial complex..."
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"...absorb the cost of creating a contract system, being the global reserve currency, and number two, that's willing to fight a war to enforce..."
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