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Descent of the Global Monetary System

Tom Spencer

The principal goal of the Bretton Woods System was to create an efficient foreign exchange system in order to promote trade and economic growth while at the same time preventing countries from engaging in competitive currency devaluations. In the early 1970s, Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries agreed to set oil prices in US dollars.

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