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tossandthrow04/03/20251 replyview on HN

This is called the euro dollar (look it up, it had nothing to do with Europe).

In short: when two non us countries trade, eg., oil they settle on USD.

So for south Africa to buy oil from Kuwait, they need USD.


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inexcf04/03/2025

Eurodollar is cyberpunk. Don't you mean the petro dollar?(nevermind found Eurodollar instead of "euro dollar" now :) )

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