Philip Lowe Backs Stablecoins over a CBDC, but with a Catch…
Don’t expect any one stablecoin, whether it’s backed by the government or not, to rule. It seems much more likely that we’ll see a variety of tokens thrive and see successful adoption.
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The Age of Geoeconomics
Geopolitics plays a major role in the outlook for global economies. Today, I’ll describe how to look at the world through the prism of geoeconomics. What is geoeconomics? Obviously, it’s a portmanteau of the words geopolitics and economics. There’s nothing new about considering those disciplines in the same context. Wars are geopolitical and are often […]
History Repeating
Hasn’t anyone ever read de Caulaincourt? David Petraeus was on the TV this morning — hustling for more taxpayers’ money. The disgraced general (he gave national security secrets to his mistress, who put them in a book) was drumming up support for Ukraine…or more specifically, for buying more weapons from US military suppliers to send their […]
This Overlooked Industry Could Be Worth Billions
Here’s something I often hear: solar panels — or wind turbines for that matter — aren’t really that great because many end up in landfill instead of being recycled.
Alien Inflation
You’d think inflation were like an invasion from space. It caught us all by surprise; no one on Earth had anything to do with it.
A System Collapsing Under its Own Weight
Balance is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as ‘an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady’.
