• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    27 days ago

    The USD is the most used reserve currency […] but it will probably decrease, and other currencies will be used more.
    That’s not a problem for the world, only for USA.

    Uhh yeah, that’s absolutely a problem for the world. You literally just said USD is the most used reserve currency (also, the basis for the petrodollar at the moment). Of course changing that is going to affect “the world”.

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      27 days ago

      I never claimed it wouldn’t affect the world, only that it wouldn’t be a problem, it just means selling off USD to buy other currencies to trade with instead, that is obviously not a problem. Only USA will be affected negatively by their currency being sold and losing value. If this happens fast the USD will plummet. And that will probably mean vastly increased interest rates and inflation in USA.

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        27 days ago

        You’re naive if you don’t think other nations will suffer when the USD fails. We’re in a global economy, and our currency is basically considered the world’s reserve currency. That means that other nations have USD. What do you think happens when the dollar fails?

        Are those nations somehow indemnified against losses in some way I’m not aware of?

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          27 days ago

          Nah we are just selling off USD we don’t need anyway, in exchange for other currencies that have better value to us.
          The USD has already dropped 10% to the Euro since Trump became president. That’s the lowest since 2021!