GM104: How the Dollar Quietly Took Over the World ft. Brendan Greeley

The US dollar has become so familiar that most investors rarely stop to ask how it became the world's dominant currency or why that dominance has endured. Brendan Greeley joins Alan Dunne to trace the dollar's remarkable journey from a silver coin in sixteenth century Europe to the foundation of modern global finance. Along the way they explore the hidden mechanics of money creation, the evolution of offshore dollars, the Federal Reserve's expanding role, and why the institutions supporting the dollar may matter far more than politics. It is a conversation that challenges many of the assumptions investors hold about money, banking and monetary policy.

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Episode TimeStamps:

00:00 - Why the Fed's balance sheet deserves far more scrutiny

00:57 - Brendan Greeley's journey from journalism to monetary history

06:36 - How studying financial history changed his view of economics

11:38 - The hidden difference between big money and small money

17:43 - How the dollar existed before the United States

26:40 - Why the dollar became the world's reserve currency

29:36 - The birth of the Eurodollar market and offshore money creation

34:53 - What really supports the dollar's global dominance

40:09 - Could global finance split into competing currency blocs

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