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With the value of the dollar fluctuating, Trump’s erratic trade and foreign policy and America’s ballooning debt pile, the dominance of the dollar in the global economy could be coming to an end. So in this video, we ask what could come next.
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Sources:
US sanctions abuse
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-donald-trump-lift-sanctions-thierry-breton/
Data on dollar usage/dominance
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/geoeconomics-center/dollar-dominance-monitor/
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/the-international-role-of-the-u-s-dollar-2025-edition-20250718.html
Dollar share of reserves falling
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-31/dollar-s-share-of-global-reserves-sinks-to-lowest-since-1995
Gold price
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/gold
Treasury yield vs DXY diverging
https://www.ft.com/content/7bd2f678-d511-431e-8732-62639ec2763f
Network effects
https://www.oxera.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/agenda-dec13-snowball-effects-figure-1.jpg-1.jpeg
Monetary blocs and the “Kindleberger trap”
https://www.ft.com/content/65a64965-028b-416a-9eac-fe9fb15ce38e
Blocs, Zones and Bands: International Monetary History in Light of Recent Theoretical Developments
https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2019/number/4/article/two-views-of-the-international-monetary-system.html
https://www.ft.com/content/67616e19-9827-47d7-a4e0-ccaf344b7f57
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindleberger_Trap
