{"id":17838,"date":"2025-05-18T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17838"},"modified":"2025-05-18T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T17:28:09","slug":"is-the-sun-setting-on-americas-financial-empire-the-ezra-klein-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17838","title":{"rendered":"Is the Sun Setting on America\u2019s Financial Empire? | The Ezra Klein Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dollar dominance&nbsp;is a benefit to Americans. Even individuals could borrow cheaper because the U.S. dollar was the global reserve currency. The dollar losing its value hurts this benefit. Trump&#8217;s tariffs weakened U.S. dollar dominance by losing trust in the&nbsp;United States as a responsible leader.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. didn&#8217;t primarily&nbsp;lose some manufacturing due to the strength of the dollar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. problems are worse than just Trump. There are a lot of bad political ideas on both sides.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is the Sun Setting on America\u2019s Financial Empire? | The Ezra Klein Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pT2cohNt6a4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dollar dominance is a benefit to Americans. Even individuals could borrow cheaper because the U.S. dollar was the global reserve currency. The dollar losing its value hurts this benefit. Trump&#8217;s tariffs weakened U.S. dollar dominance by losing trust in the United States as a responsible leader. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. didn&#8217;t primarily lose some manufacturing due to the strength of the dollar. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. problems are worse than just Trump. There are a lot of bad political ideas on both sides. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pT2cohNt6a4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1592,2110,217,165,490,619],"class_list":["post-17838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-currency","tag-dollar","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-ezra-klein","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17839,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17838\/revisions\/17839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}