Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the U.S. is threatening the global economy by abusing its dollar monopoly. “The more gold a country has, the more sovereignty it will have if there’s a cataclysm with the dollar, the euro, the pound or any other reserve currency,” Evgeny Fedorov, a lawmaker for Putin’s United Russia party in the lower house of parliament, told Bloomberg.
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