According to the Belgian economist Robert Triffin, an international monetary system based on a national currency is inherently unstable, owing to the resulting tensions among the inevitably divergent interests of the issuing country and the international system as a whole.
Según el economista belga Robert Triffin, un sistema monetario internacional basado en una moneda nacional es inherentemente inestable debido a las tensiones resultantes entre los intereses inevitablemente divergentes del país emisor y del sistema internacional en su conjunto.