"At the opening of the IMF meeting on April 21, Russia’s Finance Minister said his country ‘could not consider the dollar a reliable reserve currency because of its instability’. The same day the Swedish Riksbank halved its dollar holdings to buy euro."
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Margaret Legum
Margaret Jean Roberts Legum (8th of October 1933 Pretoria, South Africa – 1 November 2007, Cape Town, South Africa). She was a South African/British anti-apartheid activist and social reformer, who specialized in economics.
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