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The Dollar Dilemma The World's Top Currency Faces Competition
Author:
Barry J. Eichengreen, George & Helen Pardee Professor of Economics & Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
September/October 2009 Foreign Affairs
The economic crisis is hurting the world's top currency. But the pound, the yen, the euro, the renminbi, and the IMF's accounting currency are no match for the dollar. At least for now.