There is a counter view that the US economy experienced a variation of dutch disease by being the world's reserve currency. In this view, being the world's res

There is a counter view that the US economy experienced a variation of dutch disease by being the world's reserve currency. In this view, being the world's reserve currency forced the US to "export" dollars and "import" goods. Making goods manufactured from USD jurisdictions irrationally non-competitive. The reason "dutch disease" is a problem for resource producing countries is that manufacturing productivity growth is much stronger compared to commodity production. It's better to be a manufacturing powerhouse than it is to be a commodity powerhouse. It's entirely plausible that services are the same way, it's better to make things for other people than to do things for other people.