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.
上世紀六十年代,由於嫉妒美國從海外輕鬆借債的能力,時任法國財長的瓦萊裏•吉斯卡爾•德斯坦(Valéry Giscard d'Estaing)控訴美元的儲備貨幣地位是一種「囂張的特權」。幾年過後,由於美國在財政上揮霍無度,錨定於美元的佈雷頓森林固定匯率體系受到削弱,繼而崩潰。
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