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Thanks, this is the first reason that I've heard that makes sense. It's part of the world financial infrastructure.

• davidw 18y ago
  Mark Thoma has quite a bit of coverage from economists and other people who are more knowledgeable about these sorts of things than you get in your average newspaper article: http://economistsview.typepad.com/ http://economistsview.typepad.com/