Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Robin Brooks is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Robin returns to the show to discuss his previous appearance in March of 2020, life at a think tank, the changing or not-so-much status of the dollar, Trump's trade war, the current landscape of geoeconomics and much more.


Check out the transcript (mercatus.org/macro-musings/robin-brooks-dollar-fiscal-dominance-and-geoeconomics) for this week's episode, now with links.


Recorded on August 7th, 2025


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Timestamps


00:00:00 - Intro


00:00:50 - Looking Back at the Pandemic War and Fiscal Dominance


00:07:07 - Robin's Career: From Wall Street to Think Tank


00:18:53 - The Status of the US Dollar


00:27:28 - The Trade War


00:32:40 - Deglobalization


00:39:29 - Geoeconomics


00:47:28 - Secondary Sanctions


00:55:23 - Outro