What underpins the strength and ubiquity and confidence in the US dollar is uncertain—could be productivity and economy size, US energy independence, or primarily military power; but if it's military power and the US is printing dollars and going further into debt paying for military, there's an unraveling where how the system was put together.
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“what really underpins the strength and ubiquity, and confidence in the US dollar? Is it the productivity and the size of the economy, or that we're 90 plus percent energy independent? Or is it really the military?”
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Helen Thompson: "The Complex History of Energy and Geopolitics" | The Great Simplification #98— Nate HagensCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:08:12 PM
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