This article is somewhat misleading, as it posits that the dollar itself reigns or does not, whereas it is the people who control the dollar at the head of America's public and private financial institutions who are actually losing the reins of power. Their dollar has become unworthy because they have proven themselves unworthy of power. The influence of the money system is determined by the political power of those who control it, not the other way around. The fact that those who ...