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The petrodollar system, born from the 1974 security-for-oil-pricing bargain between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, rests on three pillars: oil priced in dollars, transactions settled in dollars, and oil revenue recycled into dollar-denominated assets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
After the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s sank civilian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. naval officials modeled which assets would be needed to escort ships.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Perhaps the best reason to sign on with an adviser who’s willing to bring you aboard despite your under-the-threshold assets is if your situation matches the firm’s niche.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
It can be applied to individual securities, funds and indexes, and other assets, and over all charted time frames.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Recently he’d managed to retrieve some assets from Turkey and had come to the Midwest.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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Economics
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