Adam Tooze is a professor of history at Columbia University, and is the author of many books, including his popular account of the 2007-2009 crisis, titled Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crisis Changed the World. Adam joins David on Macro Musings to discuss the COVID-19 crisis, the Eurozone, and the future of central banking. Specifically, Adam and David break down recent events and risks in the global financial system, the future of the dollar as reserve currency, and the implications of the recent German-Franco debt deal for the Eurozone. 

Transcript for the episode can be found here: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/tags/macro-musings

Adam’s Twitter: @adam_tooze 
Adam’s Columbia profile: https://history.columbia.edu/faculty/adam-tooze/
Adam’s website: https://adamtooze.com/

Related Links: 

*How Coronavirus Almost Brought Down the Global Financial System* by Adam Tooze 
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/14/how-coronavirus-almost-brought-down-the-global-financial-system

*The Death of the Central Bank Myth* by Adam Tooze  
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/13/european-central-bank-myth-monetary-policy-german-court-ruling/

*Still the World's Safe Haven?* by Darrell Duffie 
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/WP62_Duffie_updated.pdf 

*Exchange Arrangements Entering the 21st Century: Which Anchor Will Hold?* by Ethan Ilzetzki, Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff 
https://www.nber.org/papers/w23134

David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com 
David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth

Adam Tooze on Dollar Dominance, the Eurozone, and the Future of Global Finance

Hosted by David Beckworth of the Mercatus Center, Macro Musings is a podcast which pulls back the curtain on the important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.