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Benn Steil
By Benn Steil - Aug 17,2023
 NEW YORK — At the end of World War II, the United States accounted for more than half the world’s economic output and gold reserves. The United Kingdom was effectively bankrupt, with the remnants of the sterling area bound together by capital and trade controls.


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