The major remaining factor favoring the US is our extremely advanced military. "If you don't want our dollars anymore, maybe we should just invade, capture your natural resources, and make you pay us taxes!"
Are UCR/DCR convertible into oil futures or the physical commodity? If no, why is there reason to believe they will ever return to tracking the oil price? If yes why does this huge arbitrage opportunity exist?
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If only our next president could be so brazen.
Disclosure: Half joking
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