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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Aerial view of solar panels at a high-altitude photovoltaic base on October 29, 2022, in Sichuan Province of China. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
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President Vladimir Putin holds a videocall with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow on January 21, 2025. (Gavriil Grigorov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters after watching people board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia in Panama City on February 3, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein/AFP via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during the opening of the National People's Congress on March 5, 2015, in Beijing, China. (Lintao Zhang via Getty Images).
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Panama's Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha shakes hands with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the presidential palace on February 2, 2025, in Panama City. (Mark Schiefelbein/AFP via Getty Images)
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi in Beijing, China, on December 28, 2024. (Pang Xinglei/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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The Federal Reserve building on January 22, 2008, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump waves as Foxconn CEO Terry Gou and Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group, watch at the groundbreaking for the Foxconn Technology Group computer screen plant on June 28, 2018, in Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin. (Photo by Andy Manis/Getty Images)
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Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor on December 18, 2024, in New York City. (Spencer Platt via Getty Images)
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The exterior of the US Steel Clairton Coke Plant on March 20, 2024, in Clairton, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen via Getty Images)
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