===== What keeps the USD going? =====

====Notes====

  - risk of quantitative easing
  - currence collapse: lack of faith in stability or usefulness of money - either to store value or as a medium of exchange (Ross)
  - USD not backed by commodity but 'Government Fiat'
  - USD is a reserve currency (along with Euro, JPY, RMB by IMF 2016)
  - Bretton woods
  - Greatest risk: high inflation with high debt -- but other countries that export to US (e.g China) would not want it to fail

==== Sources ====
  - Ross, Sean. (2020, April 12). What It Would Take for the U.S. Dollar to Collapse [Finance]. Investopedia. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex-currencies/091416/what-would-it-take-us-dollar-collapse.asp
 

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