Charles Wyplosz is a professor of economics at the Graduate Institute of Geneva and the director of the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies.
The international currency of choice, the dollar, is under the control of a single country, a worrisome arrangement. Even worse, this country has been running huge external deficits for more than a decade and is now the world’s single largest debtor.
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