Description

In this episode of the Plutonomix Podcast, Laurie Kamhi and Barnaby Levin discuss what it means to be the “Global Reserve Currency” -- and the advantages that has for the Dollar.

TIMESTAMPS

• [00:01] Intro
• [01:57] The US Dollar as the world’s “Reserve Currency”
• [06:13] What IS a “Reserve Currency”
• [07:36] Why isn’t China closer (yet) to becoming it?
• [10:24] Outro

RESOURCES

• “The dollar’s international role: An ‘exorbitant privilege’?” by Ben S. Bernanke
• Why Shouldn’t Gold? by Barnaby Levin
• Contact Barnaby
• Contact Laurie