For decades, dollars have been the world’s common financial language, the world’s “reserve currency.” Central banks everywhere hold dollars as a way to safely store wealth. Countries, businesses and people use it to trade. And, when financial markets tank, people rush toward the dollar for safety. But recently it’s looked like that might be changing.
NPR’s Mary Childs reports.
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