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 ...

The U.S. Dollar Index is at a critical inflection point, and how it behaves from here will have a major impact on the ...

This has historically provided global businesses and countries with confidence that the dollar’s value would remain relatively stable over time: A vast and diversified economy is less vulnerable ...

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.

by increasing dollar value for shareholders. In a future article, I’ll take a look at some of the biggest value destroyers over the same period. The author or authors own shares in one or more ...

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 ...