of their own states and abroad as well. So the dollar was, the American banks were really barging into Europe by that point. But really, it wasn't, of course, as we all know, that period of the 20s was followed by a not so good decade, in which it really didn't matter whose currency was on top because so little international commerce was going on. But it was, you know, I think the point at which we can really say the dollar became the dominant global currency by international agreement was in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference. You know, that agreement is null and void today. It was dismantled later. But so, as I say, go from 1870 when the U.S. became the world's largest economy to 1944 when it was, U.S. was not only the world's largest economy by far, but clearly going to be the global hegemon following the Second World War. That's a long period of time, isn't it? So what are the major pieces of physical U.S. dollar infrastructure that we need to be aware of to understand how the (27/45)
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