The buck stops here? The threats to dollar primacy
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Falling trust in the greenback is most apparent in bond-market moves. How close is the dollar to losing its status as the world’s go-to currency, and what could take its place? We take a look at Jordan Bardella, the young, polished, ever-rising star of France’s far right (11:56). And Hong Kong’s notoriously gruff cab drivers are told to smile more…or else (18:26).
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| 0:33.5 | The Economist |
| 0:36.4 | Hello and welcome to The Economist. |
| 0:43.2 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:44.9 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:49.7 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. For years, the discussion about France's hard right centered on Marine Le Pen. |
| 1:00.0 | But for some time, she has been cultivating a protege, a young man with a polished social media |
| 1:05.5 | presence named Jordan Bardella. |
| 1:07.6 | We ask what makes him tick. |
| 1:10.9 | And one of the things Hong Kong is famous for |
| 1:13.8 | it would like to do away with, cranky cab drivers. |
| 1:17.5 | As part of a tourism push, they're being told to smile and be nice |
| 1:21.5 | or else. |
| 1:33.3 | Thank you. But first... |
| 1:41.3 | I always say tariffs is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary. |
| 1:48.5 | All I have to do is impose a tariff. |
| 1:50.9 | The more, the faster they move in. |
| 1:53.6 | The higher the tariff is very soon. |
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