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The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money
Beginning in early modern European silver mines and continuing through colonial bills, Depression-era scrip, and offshore Eurodollars, Brendan Greeley follows the dollar across five centuries. The history challenges the assumption that the United States invented or fully controls its currency, showing how trade, banking, war, and private finance made the dollar global.
- Publisher
- Crown Currency
- Publication date
- 2026-05-19
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN
- 9780593138885
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1. Odd Lots — Brendan Greeley on the Real 500-Year History of the DollarChecked
2. Macro Musings — Brendan Greeley on the 500 Year History of the DollarChecked
3. Macro Musings — Barry Eichengreen, Paul Blustein, and Brendan Greeley on Dollar DominanceChecked
4. New Books Network — The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful MoneyChecked
5. Slate Money — Money Talks: 500 Years of the DollarChecked
6. The Big View — Why the Dollar Could Outlast the United StatesChecked
7. Drinks With The Deal — Greeley on the Dollar's Deep HistoryChecked
8. The Rhodes Center Podcast — Does the US Really Make the Dollar? Has It Ever?Checked
9. The Story of Money — The US Dollar's ‘Immigrant’ OriginsChecked
10. Top Traders Unplugged — How the Dollar Quietly Took Over the WorldChecked
11. Macro Hive Conversations — Brendan Greeley on The Almighty Dollar, 500 Years of History, and the Eurodollar MarketChecked
12. Decoder Ring — How to Make Dollars Make SenseChecked