The buck stops here? The threats to dollar primacy
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 27 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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| 1:22.7 | For years, the discussion about France's hard right centered on Marine Le Pen. |
| 1:28.5 | But for some time, |
| 1:33.8 | she has been cultivating a protege, a young man with a polished social media presence named Jordan Bardella. We ask what makes him tick. And one of the things Hong Kong is famous for |
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| 1:45.1 | As part of a tourism push, they're being told to smile and be nice or else. |
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