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What Comes After the US Dollar?

Nebula – Indie Streaming [Unofficial] April 7, 2026
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With the value of the dollar fluctuating, Trump's erratic trade and foreign policy and America's ballooning debt pile, the dominance of the dollar in the global economy could be coming to an end. So in this video, we ask what could come next.

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Sources:

US sanctions abuse

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-donald-trump-lift-sanctions-thierry-breton/

Data on dollar usage/dominance

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/geoeconomics-center/dollar-dominance-monitor/

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/the-international-role-of-the-u-s-dollar-2025-edition-20250718.html

Dollar share of reserves falling

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-31/dollar-s-share-of-global-reserves-sinks-to-lowest-since-1995

Gold price

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/gold

Treasury yield vs DXY diverging

https://www.ft.com/content/7bd2f678-d511-431e-8732-62639ec2763f

Network effects

https://www.oxera.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/agenda-dec13-snowball-effects-figure-1.jpg-1.jpeg

Monetary blocs and the “Kindleberger trap”

https://www.ft.com/content/65a64965-028b-416a-9eac-fe9fb15ce38e

Blocs, Zones and Bands: International Monetary History in Light of Recent Theoretical Developments

https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2019/number/4/article/two-views-of-the-international-monetary-system.html

https://www.ft.com/content/67616e19-9827-47d7-a4e0-ccaf344b7f57

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindleberger_Trap

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