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Forget Bitcoin, US dollar to the moon 🚀 Here's how America's dollar is costing you more
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The world’s best performing currency this year isn’t crypto - it’s the US dollar. If you turn on the news, you'll often hear about currency movements - but it's full of jargon, and it rarely talks about what that actually means. Â
So today we wanted to talk about why it matters.
Today Alec and Sascha talk about why is the US dollar is on a tear of late, and answer the question - why should we care about it?
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