Venezuela abandoning the bolivar and adopting the U.S. dollar would be the biggest currency switch since the advent of the euro, Hanke says

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Steve Hanke earned the moniker “Money Doctor” after advising governments around the globe on how to use currencies to get inflation under control.

The professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University is now helping Venezuela and has been named a special advisor to a leading member of the country’s National Assembly.