{"id":234777,"date":"2024-06-21T01:30:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T01:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/21\/eswar-prasad-top-dollar-econbrowser\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:16:33","slug":"eswar-prasad-top-dollar-econbrowser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/21\/eswar-prasad-top-dollar-econbrowser\/","title":{"rendered":"Eswar Prasad: \u201cTop Dollar\u201d | Econbrowser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-52610\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>From a just-published article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/top-dollar-currency-prasad\">Foreign Affairs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The story of the dollar is, ultimately, less about the United States\u2019 strength than about the rest of the world\u2019s weaknesses. Until that disparity changes, and seemingly no matter how badly the United States plays its cards, don\u2019t expect the dollar to decline.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A summary graph:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/prasad_ForAffrs.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52611\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/prasad_ForAffrs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/prasad_ForAffrs.png 589w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/prasad_ForAffrs-300x270.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eswar Prasad also wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2014\/02\/eswar-prasad-on-the-the-dollar-trap\">\u201cThe Dollar Trap\u201d<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/Publications\/fandd\/issues\/2022\/06\/enduring-preeminence-eswar-prasad\">2022 Finance &amp; Development article<\/a>. Also, re: digital currencies etc., see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futureofmoneybook.com\/\">\u201cThe Future of Money\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2024\/06\/eswar-prasad-top-dollar\" title=\"5:23 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2024-06-20T17:23:13-07:00\">June 20, 2024<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2024\/06\/eswar-prasad-top-dollar\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] From a just-published article in Foreign Affairs: The story of the dollar is, ultimately, less about the United States\u2019 strength than about the rest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}