World Affairs
  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 2

The new international Iranian oil bourse and the global economy

  • Author:
  • Krassimir Petrov
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 126 to 133

Abstract

The American empire is struggling to delay its own economic debt-induced collapse by maintaining the fast declining US Dollar as the world's oil currency. However, sinking confidence is leading some energy-exporting states, especially Iran and Russia to seek alternatives to the “greenback”. The Euro represents one of those alternatives and the expected opening of an Iranian oil bourse may help bring about the end of the Dollar as the global reserve currency.