S9 Ep52: The Dollar Anchor Is Slipping

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Sep 2, 202626:21Science & Medicine

April 2025: Liberation Day. President Trump announces sweeping new tariffs. And then, the dollar did something a safe haven currency is not supposed to do: it fell. Tarek Hassan (Boston University, CEPR), working with Th...

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