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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this Money Talks: How does America assert its power globally? The short answer is money. For the long answer, Felix Salmon calls in authors Edward Fishman (Chokepoints) and Saleha Mohsin (Paper Soldiers) who both recently published books on the subject. They’ll discuss how the US dollar managed to become the world’s reserve asset, the ways it’s been weaponized in the past, and what that global status means under an “America First” president. This episode is member-exclusive. Listen to it now by subscribing to Slate Plus. By joining, not only will you unlock weekly bonus episodes of Slate Money—you’ll also access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to money talks from Slate Money. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, and this is the show where we talk to super interesting people about super interesting things.
0:25.6	And one of the things that I have been thinking about and utterly failing to understand for many years now is this whole question of how America is asserting its power globally through methods other than, you know, invading people.
0:42.9	And this is kind of important right now in particular.
0:45.7	And I noticed that the lovely folks at Penguin Random House have no fewer than two books out at the same time on this.
0:52.1	So I thought I would invite both of the authors
0:54.5	on to try and explain what on earth is going on. So I am talking this week to Edward Fishman
1:02.3	and Sleha Mosin. It's all coming up on Money Talks from Sleep. Money.
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