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There is no viable alternative

But that doesn’t mean confidence in the dollar can’t die anyway before an alternative is found. Straight up chaos and collapse is a hopefully remote but real possibility.

Remember how the 2008 crisis was stopped? Strong messages from reserve banks that they’ll backstop and people believing them. That trick doesn’t work in the world author it’s describing.



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