Kaylee Wells

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Before Sweden voted on the euro, Lars Kalmfors argued adopting it wasn't a good idea.

He chaired the government commission that analyzed whether Sweden should adopt the common currency.

Today, he's an economics professor at Stockholm University.

Sweden was coming out of a financial crisis it wanted to solve on its own, and the majority of Swedish voters agreed.

But a lot has changed since then, including Kalmfors' opinion.

Because Sweden is a small country, about the size of Los Angeles County, but it's got a lot of big companies that do lots of business abroad.

Maybe you've heard of them.

Volvo, H&M, Ikea.

Anders Oshlund is a senior fellow at the foreign policy think tank Stockholm Free World Forum.

He says international business is a lot easier when it doesn't rely on a bunch of different currencies.

But currency isn't just an economic tool.

It's a political one, too.

Consider the last five years.

Russia invaded Ukraine.

The U.S.

started talking about taking Greenland from Denmark, plus all the tariffs.