Michael Dooley on the International Monetary System and Future of Global Dollar Dominance

Published: July 4, 2022, 4:30 a.m.

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Michael Dooley is a chief economist for Figure Technologies and a 20-year veteran of the Federal Reserve System and the IMF. Michael is also a professor emeritus in the department of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and he joins Macro Musings to talk about the international monetary system and the future of the dollar. Specifically, David and Michael also discuss the original and revised Bretton Woods systems, the Fed\\u2019s role as a monetary superpower, and what this means for the US as a provider of safe and unsafe assets.

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Transcript for the episode can be found here.

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