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How to Stop the BRICS Nations from Abandoning the Dollar

13th January 2025 Patrick Barron 1607 Comments

The US government is aghast that there is a new grouping of nations that seeks to form an alternative to the US trade bloc and trade settlement system that uses the dollar. These nations have [more…]

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Gold Will Destroy Keynesian Fallacies

24th August 2023 Patrick Barron 2464 Comments

Great forces are in place to change the world in which we have lived since the end of the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1971. These forces cannot be stopped. The leaders of Western democracies are [more…]

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Dollar Hegemony Ending Due to Geopolitical Change

7th August 2023 Patrick Barron 2511 Comments

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…]

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The demise of the dollar: What comes after that?

18th July 2023 Going Postal 2558 Comments

A good start Whatever one might think about which currency is better suited to be used in trade or as a benchmark or as a central bank reserve, the fact remains that the USD’s days [more…]

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The demise of the dollar: What comes after that?

11th July 2023 Going Postal 3313 Comments

Endless ink has been spilled by economists and financial analysts in their efforts to predict the impact of de-dollarization. As might be expected, most of those who embrace a US-centric view of the world and [more…]

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

19th June 2023 Patrick Barron 2586 Comments

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…]

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Sound Money Required for Real Budget Discipline

1st June 2023 Patrick Barron 2706 Comments

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…]

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Role Reversal

28th March 2023 Patrick Barron 2852 Comments

Starting around 1989 the Soviet empire started to crumble. The time period between the forming of NATO in the late 1940’s and the retreat of Russia from Eastern Europe and the eventual collapse of communism [more…]

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World Dollar Hegemony Is Ending

24th October 2022 Patrick Barron 4570 Comments

The end of world dollar hegemony is coming and hardly anyone in government is taking notice or even understands what this means. Since the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, the dollar has been the only [more…]

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