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Robert McCauley on the Global Domain of the Dollar and Threats to Its Dominance

Release Date: 04/26/2021

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Robert McCauley is a Senior Fellow at the Global Policy Center at Boston University and a Senior Research Associate of the Global History of Capitalism project at the Oxford Center for Global History. Robert also worked at the Bank for International Settlements for 25 years and the New York Federal Reserve Bank for 14 years, and he joins Macro Musings to discuss questions surrounding the global domain of the dollar. Specifically, Robert and David talk about how the US currency rose to prominence internationally in the 1950s, the size and influence of the global dollar zone, dilemmas imposed by dollar demand worldwide, and more.

Transcript for the episode can be found here.

Robert’s Boston University profile: https://www.bu.edu/gdp/profile/robert-mccauley/

Robert’s BIS archive: https://www.bis.org/author/robert_n_mccauley.htm

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