With Donald Trump insisting that tariffs are the royal road to regaining the American economy’s dynamism, the debate is returning about whether a version of protectionism can be the way to address the existing problems of economic stagnation in several developed economies. The argument is familiar: an economy like the American one has a consumer …
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Can Bitcoin foreign exchange reserves prevent a US bankruptcy?
President Donald Trump has taken bold steps to position the United States as the global leader in the cryptocurrency industry. One of his first acts was to sign a bill titled “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology,” which aims to promote monetary innovation while ensuring regulatory clarity in the crypto space. The bill outlines …
Europe’s Welfare State: expensive and ineffective
European states have the largest welfare systems among OECD members and among the most expensive in the world, symbolizing the post-war social democratic social contract. But all of this has begun to be overturned with the pandemic and later the Ukrainian crisis as a starting point. At the same time, Europe’s economic dynamism has faded …
Trump will crush the dollar to revive the US economy
The new US administration will sail into uncharted waters to address the ongoing economic decline, as President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly pointed out – the transformation of monetary policy that followed the end of the gold standard is the core of his announced Make America Great Again strategy. The US’s “excessive monetary privilege” has enabled …
Banks’ exposure to government debt will bring economic collapse
Crises are never caused by excessive exposure of businesses and individuals to risky assets. Crises can only happen when investors, governments and households accumulate risk in assets where most people believe there is little to no risk – namely government bonds. The recent sell-off and the underlying trend What does the recent sell-off in US …
Inflationary money: foundation of uncontrolled state growth – destruction of economic & social freedoms
The rulers and the ruled in the Western world have long succumbed to a particularly demonic temptation: the replacement of commodity (or precious metal) money with unbacked, state-issued money, known as fiat money. In a sense, they have been seduced by the alluring prospect of securing the power to increase the quantity of money arbitrarily …
The huge Public debt and Budget deficit, the trade war and the… problem with the dollar
Investors around the world spent much of 2024 worrying about China’s problems with the housing market and deflation. In 2025, it’s the US’s turn to be the star of the negative scenarios. While Donald Trump’s trade war is making headlines, the rapid decoupling between US net foreign investment and the level of federal debt is …
Trump’s Tariffs – US Economic Suicide – and the Gold Standard
On November 30, 2024, US President-elect Donald Trump threatened the BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, as well as other states in the process of joining – with 100% tariffs on their exports to the US if they dare to attempt to replace the …
Russia: Oil – natural gas with Bitcoin and foreign exchange reserves in digital gold
Bitcoin and the BRICS group are seen as weapons to reduce Russia’s dependence on the dollar, according to President Vladimir Putin’s monetary strategy. Due to the inability to access the global financial system and international markets, Russia has to choose alternatives, such as trading in local currencies of allied states and even using its gold …
The Central Bank of Russia keeps the key interest rate unchanged for 2025!
At the last meeting of the Board of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation this year, it was decided to leave the key interest rate unchanged – at the level of 21%. This came as a surprise: most analysts were confident that the regulator would continue to tighten monetary policy and increase the index …