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The dollar is too strong — and it’s killing American competitiveness.
Why?
• Global demand for short-term U.S. debt
• Reserve currency distortion
• Weaponized dollar system
• Hollowed-out industry
Solution? Reset the game.
Paul Guerra • Tweet
On his website Peak Prosperity, Chris Martenson, a former Fortune 300 executive, provides an excellent crash course using a series of short video presentations exploring the interconnected forces of our structurally dysfunctional economic system.
Daniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
This book is about the role of interest in a modern economy. It was inspired by a Bastiat-like conviction that ultra-low interest rates were contributing to many of our current woes, whether the collapse of productivity growth, unaffordable housing, rising inequality, the loss of market competition or financial fragility. Ultra-low rates also seeme
... See moreEdward Chancellor • The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
Economic forces.
Oren Klaff • Pitch Anything
Item #1: Fiscal Deficits
U.S. fiscal deficits were huge in 2020 and 2021, but contracted in 2022 as most of the emergency programs dwindled.
However, by 2023, fiscal deficits began rising again , mainly due to increased interest expense. This is where fiscal dominance became rather sustained: the Fed’s interest rate hikes, which were meant to slow
... See moreLyn Alden • July 2024 Newsletter: Rates Insensitivity in the Downcycle
so the most important thing for currencies to devalue against is debt
Ray Dalio • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Regardless of a politician’s inclinations and even their stated intentions, they almost always kneel at the altar of internationalist trade.