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Dollar Hegemony Ending Due to Geopolitical Change

7th August 2023 Patrick Barron 0

Since the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944 the dollar has been the world’s preferred reserve currency; i.e., the major trading nations of the world were willing to hold dollars in vast amounts to satisfy their [more…]

America

Do Not Mourn the Fiat Dollar’s Demise as a Reserve Currency

19th June 2023 Patrick Barron 1

The US dollar has been the world’s premier reserve currency since the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944. Until 1971 it was redeemable by foreign central banks in gold at $35 per ounce. As long as [more…]

America

Sound Money Required for Real Budget Discipline

1st June 2023 Patrick Barron 0

News here in the US has been full of the latest farce known as raising or not raising the debt ceiling. Today (Thursday, May25, 2023) the Wall Street Journal’s headline story reassures us that progress [more…]

Book Review

Single World Fiat Currency

15th May 2023 Patrick Barron 0

Thorsten Polleit’s recent essay, The Road to a Single Fiat World Currency, explains the dangers of the current trend in the West to eliminate cash and create a world fiat currency in the place of [more…]

Authoritarianism

Authoritarianism Is Not Compatible with Economic Progress: Freedom Is Indivisible

22nd December 2022 Patrick Barron 0

Is it possible, or perhaps even desirable, for economic freedom and progress to be compatible with authoritarian government? Let’s cut right to the chase. Although some may believe so, this is a fallacy. Freedom is [more…]

Economics

“War on cash” update: A brighter outlook

2nd September 2022 Going Postal 2

Central planners and paper pushers of all stripes are not generally known for their acumen or their ability to recognize and successfully seize opportunities in time. They always tend to lag behind more or less [more…]

Economics

Why governments practise currency debasement – and how to cure them

3rd January 2022 Emile Woolf 0

I have written on the subject of currency debasement many times, but it is now reaching crunch-time – even for the pound, dollar, yen and euro.  Most respected economists persist in defining inflation as a [more…]

Authoritarianism

When Suppliers Prefer Their Goods to Our Pounds

11th October 2021 Emile Woolf 0

Following his interview with Vladimir Lenin on the subject of inflation in 1919, John Maynard Keynes quoted the Russian as having said “The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch its currency”, [more…]

Economics

War on Cash: EU steps up the fight

15th July 2021 Going Postal 0

The prolonged and repeated lockdowns, business closures and travel bans have caused widespread economic devastation and changed the way all of us live, work and interact with each other. These were the most obvious changes [more…]

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