How Trump Could Kill the Dollar

The David McWilliams Podcast

David McWilliams

News & Politics

4.5 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Monetary historian Brendan Greeley explains why the dollar's power has nothing to do with the Fed, why crypto is just a bank in disguise, and why politicising the dollar might be the fastest way to end its reign as the world's reserve currency.

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0:43.7	To understand the economy,
0:45.9	you have to understand human nature.
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0:57.8	It is time for the podcast, and today on the podcast we're going to be talking all about money.
1:03.1	They're not how much you make of it, where you get it, if you don't have it, where you get easy money.
1:07.6	If you have it, how do you protect it and get feckers away from you who actually want to
1:11.3	but you don't want to give it to them?
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