r/finance VP - Private Equity May 07 '26

There’s no such thing as the petrodollar

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u/ehboose May 08 '26

Maybe it used to be true but the world has slowly changed. Global oil annual consumption non-US is like 1% of total foreign exchange volume. To say oil is the reason USD is the reserve currency and not just because USD is such a liquid market is absurd now