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America Isn't Broke: How the Dollar Gives America Extraordinary Power - and Why Americans Get So Little of It

America Isn't Broke: How the Dollar Gives America Extraordinary Power - and Why Americans Get So Little of It

Fand, Alysson

Paperback

United States Politics

ISBN13: 9798192921555
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 16 2026
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
America is the richest and most financially powerful country in the world. It issues the currency that governments, corporations, banks, and investors across the globe want to hold. The dollar dominates international finance, U.S. Treasury securities are treated as some of the safest assets on Earth, and the United States has sustained trade deficits for decades without facing the kind of external financial crisis that would threaten most other nations. So why are Americans constantly told that their country cannot afford better healthcare, affordable housing, stronger infrastructure, greater economic security, or a more ambitious social safety net? America Isn't Broke challenges one of the most powerful assumptions in American politics: that the federal government faces the same financial constraints as a household, a business, or even an ordinary country. The book explores the extraordinary position of the U.S. dollar and explains why America's real economic limits are not simply about finding enough dollars. The true constraints are productive capacity, labor, technology, natural resources, supply chains, and ultimately inflation. But this is not a technical economics textbook. It is a political argument about power, priorities, and the choices America makes. If the United States can mobilize enormous financial resources during wars, financial crises, pandemics, and emergencies, why does fiscal restraint suddenly become unavoidable when the discussion turns to the economic security of ordinary Americans? From healthcare and housing to the decline of the middle-class promise, America Isn't Broke examines the gap between America's extraordinary monetary power and the insecurity experienced by millions of its citizens. The argument is not that America can spend without limits. Every economy has limits. The argument is more provocative: because the dollar occupies a unique position in the global monetary system, America's limits may be far wider than its political debate suggests. The United States is not a poor country struggling to finance a better society. It is an extraordinarily powerful country deciding what to do with that power. And that changes the question from Can America afford it? to something much more uncomfortable: Why has America chosen not to?

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