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Conor Clarke - Conor Clarke is the editor, with Michael Kinsley, of Creative Capitalism. He was previously a fellow at The Atlantic and an editor at The Guardian. More

Conor Clarke is the editor, with Michael Kinsley, of Creative Capitalism, an economics blog that was recently published in book form by Simon and Schuster. He was previously a fellow at The Atlantic and an editor at The Guardian. He is also on Twitter.

The G20 Supports New Global Currency

By Conor Clarke
Apr 2 2009, 9:03 AM ET Comment

Via this morning's Wall Street Journal, I see that the G20 supports increasing IMF special drawing rights by between $100 and $250 billion.

I hope we hear soon from Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, who has been telling us that this sort of thing is actually a vast conspiracy to replace the dollar with a new global currency.

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