Barry Eichengreen on Dollar Dominance, Crypto Hype, and Reforming International Finance

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Barry Eichengreen is one of the leading thinkers on international economics and exchanges rates. He is Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a prolific author including most recently The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era (2018) and How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future (2017). In this podcast, we discuss:

1. Why past pandemics are a poor guide to the COVID pandemic.
2. Have we reached peak political polarization?
3. Has financial globalisation constrained central bankers?
4. Could the Chinese yuan displace the US dollar as dominant currency?
5. The recipe for being the top reserve currency.
6. The status of the Euro.
7. Why crypto will not topple the dollar.
8. The two key reforms for the international financial system.
9. Books that influenced Barry: The World In Depression 1929-1939 (Kindleberger), A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (Friedman, Schwartz), The Yellen class note (not available online)