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A monetary standard based on Bitcoin, a digital currency, would act something like the gold standard in making price levels more predictable and stabilizing exchange rates but would likely be undone by politicians and central bankers.
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The death of manufacturing in the United States is being postponed, even reversed, by foreign investment including that coming from China.
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