Economics

Is a Strong Dollar Bad for the Global Economy?

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

ello. Today we look at the potential problems of a strengthening dollar, port congestion and the return of global imbalances.

Exchange rates most often impinge on the economic world when there’s big drama — China’s surprise devaluation in 2015, the crisis of confidence with the new euro in 2000, the Asian currency collapses of 1997.