Downgrading Uncle Sam, Not America
An orthodox economist describes inconsistencies in rating agencies’ approach to downgrading US debt and their view of reserve currency status
Read more...An orthodox economist describes inconsistencies in rating agencies’ approach to downgrading US debt and their view of reserve currency status
Read more...Two recent books seem unduly complacent about the status of the dollar as reserve currency.
Read more...Trump does have a plan to shore up America”s flagging power, even if, when you put the pieces together, it does not make much sense.
Read more...An analysis shows how the EU and Eurozone buffer some economic shocks.
Read more...Crypto crirme, particularly violent ones like finger-choppings, are increasing. This should not be much of a surprise.
Read more...Why the downside to Trump economic policies are far greater than the press and pundit class are willing to acknowledge.
Read more...Mapping the contagion fever chart of how a Trump financial meltdown might unfold.
Read more...Why BRICS has gotten barely anywhere on launching its own finanicial institutions and why that is unlikely to change soon if ever.
Read more...Why the Trump-induced economic and financial train wrecks will be more severe than most pundits seem to anticipate.
Read more...A Trump advisor argues, in all seriousness, that other countries should help bear the cost of US empire because it confers so many benefits on them.
Read more...Sales of US equities by foreign owners played a meaningful role in the falll of the dollar after the Trump tariff rampage began.
Read more...What is Trump trying to achieve on the economic front? Despite all the bobbing and weaving, he does have some core aims.
Read more...On how lower foreign government appetite for Treasuries might affect the status of the dollar as reserve currency.
Read more...Some further observations about the Trump tariff train wreck.
Read more...Do Trump’s trade flip flops, destructive to everyone save perhaps insider traders, show that he has entered a Mad Ludwig phase?
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