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Why the Whole World Needs Dollars: The Petrodollar System (opens the original)
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Introduction Saudi Arabia sells oil. Saudi Arabia’s biggest customers today are China, India, and the rest of Asia, not the United States. So why does a barrel of Saudi crude still get priced in U.S. dollars, a currency that has nothing to do with Saudi Arabia or most of its buyers?Nobody voted on this. There’s no international law requiring it. And yet for more than fifty years, most of the world’s oil, and a huge share of everything else traded across borders, has been priced and settled in do
What Is Money, Really? (opens the original)
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Introduction If I handed you a signed piece of paper that said “I owe you $100,” would you take it as payment for your groceries? No. You’d laugh and tell me to pay with something real.But that’s close to what a dollar bill actually is, with one important twist. Look at one closely: it’s a Federal Reserve Note. The word “note” comes from the same place as an IOU, literally short for “I Owe You”: a written promise from whoever issued it. The Federal Reserve itself lists these notes as its own lia
The Roth IRA: A Powerful Complement to Your 401(k) (opens the original)
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IntroductionIn the previous article, I compared the Traditional and Roth 401(k) and ended with a teaser: the 401(k) is not the only tax-advantaged account available to you. The Roth IRA is a separate account entirely, and for many investors it is not an alternative to the 401(k) but a complement to it.I have a Roth IRA myself. Getting money into it required an extra step since my income was above the direct contribution limit, but it was worth the effort. More on that shortly.<a class="image-lin
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