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The Economist
The dollar and its domestic enemies
Upping the ante following the initial weaponization of the dollar in 2022, the United States and a number of allied nations have agreed in principle to...
The Economist
$30 trillion with neither a whimper or bang
On Tuesday, February 1, 2022, the United States national debt surpassed $30tr for the first time. It’s the latest in a series of recent fiscal and monetary benchmarks received...
The Professor
The irony of China’s most recent bitcoin ban
Various aspects of cryptocurrency use have been banned in China numerous times over the better part of the past decade. The most stringent barriers yet, though, were announced on...
The Professor
Remembering the truly forgotten, 20 years later
There’s a faded silver cup on my bookshelf. If you look closely at it, a faded imprint reads 'eSpeed: We Are Markets'. I received it at a securities industry trade show in the...
The Professor
Hurricane Ida threatens global plastic markets
(By the time this article is published, Hurricane Ida will have made landfall and the aftermath will be already under assessment. One hopes, as always, that the damage is minimal...