Venezuela abandoning the bolivar and adopting the U.S. dollar would be the biggest currency switch since the advent of the euro, Hanke says | Fortune0

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• August 23, 2026

Steve Hanke earned the moniker “Money Doctor” after advising governments across 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 the country’s National Assembly. He told Fortune’s Shawn Tully that his