Robin Brooks

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308 appearances 6 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 20 Aug

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Prof G Markets · China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up · 19 Feb 2026 podcast

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margin in terms of popular opinion polls now has moved in the direction of joining the euro you're totally right about that that's mostly about geopolitics so a fear that um in particular russia's invasion of ukraine just makes the world less safe the us is less of a predictable ally and so

It must be that some Swedes think joining the euro gives you that extra safety.

I think that's, if that is what's going on, then I think that's poor reasoning because the euro is really just a system of currency pegs.

It doesn't confer any kind of safety.

You just have to ask the Baltic states, for example, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, do they feel any safer from Russian invasion because they're members of the Euro?

No.

Poland, the finance minister just said, you know, we think the euro is a great idea, but we prefer to be on the outside than on the inside.

So I think whether or not from a geopolitical point of view, this is a smart decision, I think it's totally up in the air.

First of all, I think you're asking exactly the right question.

There is a survey of central bank reserve managers.

So these are, you know, picture all the sovereign wealth funds in Asia, all the central banks that have piled up tons of dollars in other foreign exchange reserves.

These guys manage trillions of dollars.

And this survey is done by the IMF.

It's once a quarter, and it surveys what is your allocation of your reserves to dollars versus euros versus Swiss franc versus Swedish krona, etc.,

And the amazing thing is that with all the noise last year, just think back to Liberation Day, the big drop in the dollar in April 2025.

And then as we went through the year,

the altercations that President Trump had with the Fed, the massive rise in gold prices that we saw after October in particular, the allocations that foreign reserve managers are making to the dollar have been totally stable.

There has been no flight from the dollar.

There's also been no flight into the Euro.

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