Pentti Kouri is an economist and venture capitalist, who has taught international economics at Stanford, Yale, New York and Helsinki Universities, and worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund.
Within its first two months, President Donald Trump’s second administration has attacked US institutions, alienated trade partners and allies, decimated consumer and investor confidence, and sent the stock market plummeting. Can the dollar’s status as the world’s leading reserve currency – and the extraordinary advantages this affords the US economy – withstand the onslaught?
