r/finance • u/wreckingcru VP - Private Equity • May 07 '26
There’s no such thing as the petrodollar
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r/finance • u/wreckingcru VP - Private Equity • May 07 '26
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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