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Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead Audiobook
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A leading economist explores the global rise of the US dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured.
Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached today’s lofty pinnacle without a certain amount of good luck.
Drawing in part on his own experiences, including with policymakers and world leaders, Kenneth Rogoff animates the remarkable postwar run of the dollar—how it beat out the Japanese yen, the Soviet ruble, and the euro—and the challenges it faces today from crypto and the Chinese yuan, the end of reliably low inflation and interest rates, political instability, and the fracturing of the dollar bloc.
Americans cannot take for granted that the Pax Dollar era will last indefinitely, not only because many countries are deeply frustrated with the system but also because overconfidence and arrogance can lead to unforced errors. Rogoff shows how America’s outsized power and exorbitant privilege can spur financial instability—not just abroad but also at home.
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“[Rogoff’s new book is] very well timed…It’s a history of dollar dominance—how we built it, the challenges to it, and a warning, written before the Trump administration, that the rest of the world was already beginning to look for exits from it.”
— Ezra Klein
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“A well-written, often surprisingly lively book.”
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“It’s an important book, accessible and entertaining. If this time is different, it will help you understand why.”
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“[Rogoff] worries that we are jeopardizing the dollar’s pivotal role in the global economy. That should matter to all Americans.”
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“The central argument of Our Dollar, Your Problem—that the greenback’s pre-eminence was never guaranteed and might plausibly be overturned—could hardly be more timely.”
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“[Rogoff’s] autobiographical element nicely enhances the sometimes technical (but always accessible) monetary story.”
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“Rogoff brilliantly describes the dominance of the dollar across time and space, its contenders, and the limits to its immortality, weaving in his personal experiences which makes for a delightful read.”
— Gita Gopinath, first deputy managing director, International Monetary Fund -
“A tour de force—Ken Rogoff pairs delightful personal anecdotes with a sweeping portrait of the international monetary system. Rogoff’s prescient view on the possibly ‘shrinking’ dollar is certainly not to be taken lightly.”
— Hélène Rey, Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School
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A USA Today Bestseller
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A #1 Amazon Bestseller in Monetary Policy
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A Financial Times Pick for What to Read in 2025
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About Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth S. Rogoff is Maurits C. Boas Professor of Economics at Harvard University and former International Monetary Fund chief economist. One of the world’s foremost observers on the global economy, he is coauthor of the New York Times bestselling This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly.
About Evan Sibley
Nikki Massoud is the Audie Award–winning narrator of over thirty audiobooks. Also an experienced actor, her television credits include guest starring on Love Life, Emergence, and Madam Secretary, and her stage credits include Wish You Were Here at Playwrights Horizons and Othello at New York Theatre Workshop. She is also an Atlantic Launch Commission writer. Based in New York City, she is a first-generation Iranian-American immigrant who was raised in Montreal and Washington, DC.