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Dec 26, 2025 10 tweets 2 min read
🧵 Thread: America’s advantage is India’s disadvantage

The biggest economic advantage the US has isn’t technology, military power, or productivity. It’s issuing the global settlement currency. And this is precisely where India is structurally disadvantaged.

#INRvsUSD The USD is not just America’s currency. It is the world’s default unit for trade settlement, commodity pricing, foreign exchange reserves, and global debt. Demand for dollars comes from outside the US, independent of US growth or fiscal discipline.