Back in the 1960s, envious of America’s ability to borrow easily abroad, French finance minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing denounced the reserve currency status of the dollar as an “exorbitant privilege”. A few years later, weakened by US fiscal profligacy, the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system anchored on the US currency collapsed.
上世纪六十年代,由于嫉妒美国从海外轻松借债的能力,时任法国财长的瓦莱里•吉斯卡尔•德斯坦(Valéry Giscard d'Estaing)控诉美元的储备货币地位是一种“嚣张的特权”。几年过后,由于美国在财政上挥霍无度,锚定于美元的布雷顿森林固定汇率体系受到削弱,继而崩溃。
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