The Exhaustion of the Dollar: Its Implications for Global Prosperity

H. Peter Gray

Language: English

Publisher: Palgrave macmillan

Published: Jun 29, 2004

Description:

The U.S. dollar has served as the key currency of the international economic/financial system for over fifty years. This study assesses the proposition that the series of U.S. current-account deficits over the last twenty years will shortly exhaust the capability of the dollar to continue as the key currency.