I’ve just finished reading Making Sense of the Dollar: Exposing Dangerous Myths about Trade and Foreign Exchange by Marc Chandler. You may be familiar with Chandler from appearances on CNBC. He is currently the Chief Foreign Exchange Strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman, having prior held a similar post with HSBC. He’s written a number of magazine and online articles, and teaches at NYU as well. What Chandler looks to do with Making Sense of the Dollar is to dispute many of the commonly held views about the US currency, international...