Robin Brooks on the Dollar, Fiscal Dominance, and Geoeconomics
Macro Musings with David Beckworth
Release Date: 08/25/2025
Robin Brooks on the Dollar, Fiscal Dominance, and Geoeconomics
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info_outlineRobin Brooks is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Robin returns to the show to discuss his previous appearance in March of 2020, life at a think tank, the changing or not-so-much status of the dollar, Trump’s trade war, the current landscape of geoeconomics and much more.
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Recorded on August 7th, 2025
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:50 - Looking Back at the Pandemic War and Fiscal Dominance
00:07:07 - Robin’s Career: From Wall Street to Think Tank
00:18:53 - The Status of the US Dollar
00:27:28 - The Trade War
00:32:40 - Deglobalization
00:39:29 - Geoeconomics
00:47:28 - Secondary Sanctions
00:55:23 - Outro