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Re:Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank by mlazos on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:35PM (#21568887)
I don’t think it was a deliberate agreement per se, I feel like it was just the natural outcome after the US helped rebuild a lot of Europe. The previous world order had been ripped apart by the war, and the US was the world’s largest economy by the end.
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Re:Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank by mars4rp on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:42PM (#21568933)
It was deliberate, on one of the financial summits over the future of financial system after WWII a US changed all the word of GOLD to USD. there was a planet money episode about it.
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Re:Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank by dv_dt on Monday November 18, 2019 @06:36PM (#21569292)
Yes it was agreed upon that the US Dollar became the underpinning of international finance at the Bretton Woods conference near the end of WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

This has a link to the PMoney episode you're thinking of, as well as a more recent discussion of the economic fight other nations possibly trying to supplant or at least be adjacent to the dollar as a reserve currency.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/07/30/746337868/75-y...

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Re:Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank by chii on Monday November 18, 2019 @06:26PM (#21569224)
It's the "hidden" rewards of winning the war. The US didn't take any territory (cept leaving bases behind). But they can reap the financial control and profit immensely via this indirect control.

This is why the US does not want https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS to succeed and will do much to sabotage it.

In the world of politicking, there are no good guys - just lesser of evils (or better the devil you know).

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Re:Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank by Aeolun on Monday November 18, 2019 @07:16PM (#21569561)
It was also pretty much the only economy left standing. I don’t think that can be overstated enough.
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Re:Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank by SamReidHughes on Monday November 18, 2019 @07:41PM (#21569730)
The entire New World was left standing.
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Re:Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank by Nasrudith on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @11:07AM (#21574440)
True. The US was an industrial behemoth before even formal involvement in the War and was preposterously powerful in the area. They didn't have it diminished by bombing and gained manufacturing capacity instead of losing it.

While others were unscarred they never "stood up" by the standards of the world scale even if they were also industrialized.

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