Book Talk | King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World’s Dominant Currency
A discussion of Paul Blustein’s new book.

The months since the inauguration of President Donald Trump have seen a flurry of US actions to reorder the global economy and extraordinary turmoil in global markets. The resulting weakening of the dollar has surprised many commentators, leading to questions about what these policy moves and the market reaction mean for the currency’s role at the center of the international monetary and financial system. The dollar has weathered such storms before and has emerged stronger from each crisis, but will this time be different?
May 2025

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11:00 AM ET
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Join us for a timely and important discussion with:

Paul Blustein

Paul Blustein is a senior associate (non-resident) with the Economics Program and Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). A graduate of the University of Wisconsin & Oxford University, Blustein was a Rhodes Scholar who spent much of his career as a reporter at the Washington Post & WSJ.
 

Karthik Sankaran (Moderator)

Karthik Sankaran is a senior research fellow in geoeconomics in the Global South program at the Quincy Institute. Originally trained as a historian, he had a long career in finance beginning in 1997, where he focused on foreign exchange and fixed income in emerging markets. He then joined Eurasia Group as Director of Global Strategy.
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