Luke Gromen: The Dollar System From Bretton Woods to Today

This was originally published as an audio only conversation: https://youtu.be/Kb9iV3H90RU

One of the most significant macroeconomic questions facing the world is what the future of the global reserve system, dominated for the last 80 years by the U.S. dollar, holds.

This episode is a replay of NLW’s epic conversation with macro analyst Luke Gromen from April 2020. In it, Luke discusses the entire history of that U.S. dollar system, including:

Bretton Woods and why the world went on a USD-based system rather than John Maynard Keynes’ idea for a non-sovereign “bancor” world reserve currency
The move to the petrodollar in the 1970s
The financialization of commodities that started in the 1980s
The monetary policy vacuum after the Cold War ended
How a shift in executive compensation rules led to many of today’s problems with Wall Street
The export of Treasury bills as a business model
The economic fallout of 2008 globally and domestically
The end of Treasury bill buying in 2014
Why the Federal Reserve is the only sugar daddy left

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