2025-04-14
57 分钟Welcome to Macro Musings,
where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past,
present, and future.
I am your host, David Beckworth, a senior research fellow with the Merquittis Center at George Mason University,
and I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is Paul Bluestine.
Paul is a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journalist and author of several acclaimed books on the global economic institution.
Paul has a new book titled Keem Dollar, where he explores the dollar's historical rise,
its present-day power, and the challenges to its dominance.
He joins us today to discuss his new book and recent developments surrounding the global dollar system.
Paul, welcome to the show.
My pleasure.
It's great to have you on,
and it's very special for me to have you as the guest today
because you played an important part of me being here in this studio.
So when I was wrapping up graduate school,
I was reading a book of yours called The Chasing Inside the Crisis
that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humble the IMF.
And you covered the Asian financial crisis, the late 90s,
lots of great stories, lots of good international economics in here.