Most people encounter the dollar sign on a daily basis: in stores, on websites, in the media and more. The symbol also serves as shorthand, referring to money, wealth, capitalism, commercialism ...

This exalted status, which a French politician from the 1960s termed as the dollar’s “exorbitant privilege,” has been taken to a breaking point by the tariff war. No matter what happens in ...

Perhaps, you might fret, the dollar’s present weakness is a sign that it is being dethroned. For the moment, the fall in the greenback’s value is better explained by what foreign-exchange ...