Robin Brooks is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Robin returns to the show to discuss his previous appearance in March of 2020, life at a think tank, the changing or not-so-much status of the dollar, Trump’s trade war, the current landscape of geoeconomics and much more. Check out the <a href= "https://www.mercatus.org/macro-musings/robin-brooks-dollar-fiscal-dominance-and-geoeconomics">transcript</a> for this week’s episode, now with links. Recorded on August 7th, 2025 Subscribe to David's Substack: <a href= "https://macroeconomicpolicynexus.substack.com/">Macroeconomic Policy Nexus</a> Follow David Beckworth on X: <a href= "https://twitter.com/DavidBeckworth">@DavidBeckworth</a> Follow Robin on X: <a href= "https://x.com/robin_j_brooks">@Robin_J_Brooks</a> Follow the show on X: <a href= "https://twitter.com/Macro_Musings">@Macro_Musings</a> Check out our Macro Musings <a href= "https://www.bonfire.com/store/mercatus-podcast-swag/">merch!</a> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/@BeckworthDavid">Subscribe</a> to David's new BTS YouTube Channel  Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:50 - Looking Back at the Pandemic War and Fiscal Dominance 00:07:07 - Robin’s Career: From Wall Street to Think Tank 00:18:53 - The Status of the US Dollar 00:27:28 - The Trade War 00:32:40 - Deglobalization 00:39:29 - Geoeconomics 00:47:28 - Secondary Sanctions 00:55:23 - Outro

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