Sort of! The dollar’s value fluctuates over time (inflation) and due to economic conditions (such as tariffs) based on how much you can purchase with that same dollar. Thus a dollar is really a ...

ESWAR PRASAD is Senior Professor of Trade Policy in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and the author of The ...

Inflation has a negative impact on the time value of money, because it decreases the purchasing power of money over time. A dollar will purchase more today than it will in the future. Can the time ...

Foreigners own US stocks and bonds worth $30 trln, much of it unhedged. Doubts over the greenback’s status threaten to leave ...

One of the many justifications President Donald Trump has deployed on behalf of his new tariffs is that they’ll reduce the trade deficit over time ... for the value of the dollar.

"Global trust and reliance on the dollar was built up over a half century or more," says ... But the dollar not only failed to strengthen this time, it fell, puzzling economists and hurting ...

One potential victim: the U.S. dollar. In just weeks, a steep increase in tariffs and uncertainty over trade have sparked fears that U.S. growth will slow. At the same time, major shifts in U.S ...