The Birth of the Petro-Dollar The creation of the petrodollar system in the early 1970s was a product of the United States’ strategic decision to secure its economic dominance through the global oil trade. After the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, which had tied the dollar to gold, the U.S. struck a deal with…

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