Tom Bilyeu

When a bank in Tokyo lends dollars to a trading firm in Singapore, those are euro dollars.

A bank in London extends a dollar credit line to an oil importer in Jakarta, euro dollars.

If a Japanese company wants to import furniture from Sweden, how does it pay?

Euro dollars.

It can't just hand over yen.

IKEA has no use for yen in Stockholm.

And the odds of some local Japanese bank having idle Swedish kronor sitting around are basically zero.

So what do you do?

You stick a universal currency in the middle.

one that's accepted in Tokyo and Stockholm, one that both sides trust and can use, that's the dollar.

That's what a reserve currency actually is, not just what central banks hold in their vaults, not the ability to price oil in one denomination,

It's having a universal medium that makes it possible for a Japanese company to pay a Swedish company cleanly, cheaply, and without a bilateral currency agreement.

And that system collectively is known as the Eurodollar.

And it moves money across every border on earth.

But there is a crazy twist.

Eurodollars are created out of thin air and destroyed just as easily in a constant credit-based cycle of monetary birth and death.

Stick around, we'll be right back after this.

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