[Robert DeLong]

In my earlier response: is inflation should have been: if inflation

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Also think Zimbabwe & Venezuela where it adversely affects a large segment of the citizenry, because the currency has basically become totally worthless.

[Adder]

It is worthless compared to ours since ours is the default standard whether others are tied to it or not. Its been our salvation thus far: if not ours, whose?

China is working real hard to make their yuan the world standard. When and if that happens ours is subject to the same pressures.