Crypto crirme, particularly violent ones like finger-choppings, are increasing. This should not be much of a surprise.
Read more...Trump has mandated a Mission Impossible: getting rid of paper checks for Treasury receipts and payments by September 30
Read more...Might there be more method in Trump’s crypto and dollar madness than most assume?
Read more...How Trump and his allies use crypto to rig the rules of the game in their favor and fleece rubes.
Read more...Why the GENIUS Act does not live up to its pretenses of making stablecoins safe, thus setting the stage for a Federal bailout.
Read more...We warned that crypto was closely aligned with criminal activity. The open grift of the new “strategic” Trump fund proves that case.
Read more...Jane D’Arista describes the internationalization of finance and how is has produced not just crises but fundamental economic distortions
Read more...Russian experts say US secondary sanctions are damaging Russia-China commerce. But their solutions don’t seem to be close to implementation.
Read more...A terse debunking of the idea that governments holding Bitcoin or other private currencies is good for anyone other than their touts.
Read more...Why US trade and economic threats against Mexico could trigger a financial/currency crisis that may propagate across the Global South
Read more...Our debunking the hype of the purported BRICS payment potential of a BIS project, mBridge, has proven to be true, and then some.
Read more...More realistic takes on BRICS, including by Michael Hudson.
Read more...Michael Hudson refines and extends recent discussions on the future of the dollar, particularly under Trump, and finance-dominated capitalism
Read more...Why the Global South path away from the dollar will be longer and more difficult than many friends of BRICS imagine.
Read more...A discussion of some proposals for the BRICS de-dollarization project, suggesting a lack of convergence of ideas among key players.
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