A European challenge to the dollar highlights the breakdown of the Bretton Woods order

Most Americans don’t understand the immense benefit they receive from the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, nor the fact that this global choice is the result of the US-led Bretton Woods order after World War II. A new European Commission recommendation for greater use of the euro shows how far and fast the global system is changing.
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