Скачать или смотреть The Rise of the Dollar: How the US Dollar Became the World's Currency (Explained)

Imagine a single symbol that runs through almost every trade, commodity price, and financial crisis on Earth: the U.S. dollar. This video traces the dollar’s unlikely rise — from colonial coins to Bretton Woods, petrodollars, crisis-era safe-haven status, and the new challengers reshaping global payments.

What you’ll learn • Why the dollar became the world’s reserve currency
• Bretton Woods, Nixon’s shock, and the end of the gold link
• The petrodollar and why oil matters for currency power
• How crises (1973, 1997, 2008, 2020) reinforced dollar dominance
• Modern challengers: China’s digital yuan, Russia’s ruble shifts, India’s UPI, and regional currency initiatives
• How a new system could realistically replace the dollar — step by step.

• [Suggested reading placeholder: Bretton Woods, Triffin dilemma, Nixon Shock, petrodollar history]

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