Ahead of America’s election in November, company bosses, financiers and diplomats are busy calling on Donald Trump’s allies, trying to divine the economic policies that the former president will pursue if he is re-elected. But there is one man in Mr Trump’s orbit who holds more sway than most and who, for now, is virtually inaccessible. That is because he is inmate number 04370-510 in the Federal Correctional Institution of Miami…
BRICS Summit Begins with Goal of Ditching U.S. Dollar…
De-Dollarization was the hot topic at BRICS meeting this week which was held in Russia. Thirteen countries joined the five member nations to discuss trade ‘without the use of the U.S. dollar’…
BRICS: 8 Banks Ban U.S. Dollar Transactions…
Iraq is moving in tandem with the BRICS philosophy as it banned eight banks from initiating transactions in the U.S. dollar…
REPORT: Foreign Investors Will Pull $65 Billion out of China in 2024…
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) issued a capital flows report on Wednesday that predicted foreign investors will withdraw $65 billion from China in 2024. The capital outflow has been especially pronounced in China’s bond market…
China Just Played a Trump Card in the Chip War. Are More Export Curbs Coming?…
A trade war between China and the United States over the future of semiconductors is escalating…
De-Dollarization and Global Trade…
The current telling of the story of de-dollarization — the replacement of the U.S. dollar as the global economy’s primary reserve currency with a new BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China)-funded reserve currency — depicts the loss of the reserve currency as a catastrophe that will crush America…
The Golden Arrow – President Trump Announces Economic Agenda 47 Which Includes “Universal Baseline Tariffs”…
This is it. This is pure MAGA. President Trump is announcing the big one… “Economic Agenda 47“…
Watch Closely – Mexico Releases Agenda for North American Leadership Summit, January 10th Mexico City…
In the background of international geopolitics and all things economically attached, the larger climate change agenda, the Build Back Better program, has been unfolding…
How Stupid Do European Politicians Think Their Citizens Are?: China Is Aggressively Reselling Russian Gas to Europe…
One month ago, we were surprised to read how, despite a suppressed appetite for energy amid its housing crash and economic downturn (for which “zero covid” has emerged as a convenient scapegoat for emperor Xi), China has been soaking up more Russian natural gas so far this year, while imports from most other sources declined…
Will Europe Go Down to Defeat Before Ukraine?…
During the runup to the financial crisis, your humble blogger pointed out that financial time moved faster than political time. Market players often had better and more comprehensive access to important information than officials did and had strong incentives to act on it…
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