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Can the World Count on the Dollar If It Can’t Count on Smooth Elections?

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The world is watching for instability after the US election next week. If there’s a repeat of the chaos that followed the 2020 results, it could damage not just American democracy, but something else: the global financial system that America dominates.

Today on the show, host Saleha Mohsin is joined by former Senator Pat Toomey to unpack what’s at stake for a world that runs on US dollars if a peaceful transfer of power is no longer a given in the world’s oldest democracy.

Read more: Election-Violence Risk Threatens US Dollar Dominance

Further listening: Bloomberg’s Trump Interview: Inside His Economic Vision for a Second Term

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