currency, we're really talking about primarily these dollars. Right. And so that brings us very conveniently to the subject of your new book, King Dollar. Let's talk about the book. So what would you say King Dollar is about? How would you describe that, in other words? Why did you write it? And why is the subject important in your view? Well, I got into it in, I think it was 2019, 2020. There was an awful lot of talk, partly because of the rise of cryptocurrency, partly because the US government was weaponizing the dollar, meaning, by which I mean it was either threatening or actually cutting off targets from access to the dollar system. And there was a lot of talk that the dollar might be, other actors would find all kinds of new currencies to replace the dollar. And also there was a lot of, I suppose, what you'd call the usual concern that, because the national debt was mounting and it was hard to see how the money supply could be kept under control, that the dollar would somehow (13/45)
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