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The Dollar’s Real History Begins Outside the US
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1:42Now PlayingWhat fundamentally is a dollar and who actually controls it?
On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, journalist (and current Ph.D. candidate in financial history), Brendan Greeley tells Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway why the dollar is a lot older than you might suspect and goes way beyond the US and implicates the whole world.
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