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Inflation and challenges to the dollar

The CompassThe Test

Can China challenge the dollar's dominant place in the global economy or will digital currencies prove more disruptive in the long term?

International economist Jim O’Neill explores the implications for the dollar of America’s response to the Covid-driven economic crisis. With help from economists and historians, he asks if China can challenge the dollar's dominant place in the global economy - or whether digital currencies, such as bitoin, could prove more disruptive in the long term?

(Photo: Representations of the Ripple, Bitcoin, Etherum and Litecoin virtual currencies on a PC motherboard. Credit: Reuters)

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Sun 25 Jul 202110:32GMT
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