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April 2025

The Market Dollar and the IMFS dollar (9/16/2020)
With a lot of recent talk about the USD system, and seeming interconnections between US current account deficits, the world’s demand for “safe assets…
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Ratings and Hegemony (5/29/2017)
This is the original English version of a piece that appeared in LIMES, the Italian Journal of Geopolitics in the March 2017 edition.
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Make Multilateral Intervention Great Again (12/17/2016)
Just so you know that I have been going on about this for almost a decade.
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Ramblings on international inside money and reserve systems (3/25/2014)
This post is another attempt to figure out some things that have always bothered me, but perhaps it might be of use to other people as well.
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Capital, the Nation-State and the Crisis of the Right (10/28/2016)
Oldie migration—This was originally on Tumblr on October 28, 2016.
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January 2025

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October 2024

Fiscal-Monetary-FX Interaction in a Picture
Or "How Screwed Are You?"
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Meme Streets
As I’m sure everyone knows, the Economics Nobel was awarded this week to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson.
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Sovereign is he who successfully insists he is exceptional
This is another peeve post spurred by a customary irritant—trade policy and the alleged impact of free trade on developed countries.
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August 2024

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