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He is nailing it. The only thing that gives dollar value is the fact it is required for other countries to build dollar reserves to buy oil(petrodollar). But it is ending little by lillte with Russia and Iran, huge oil producers, and China, the biggest oil consummer in the world, seeking to trade using their own currencies instead of having to buy dollars for that.