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Role Reversal: The Collapse of the Dollar-Enforced Empire

April 10, 2023

Role Reversal: The Collapse of the Dollar-Enforced Empire The Soviet empire started to crumble around 1989. The time period between the forming of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the late 1940s and the retreat of Russia from Eastern Europe with the eventual collapse of communism in Russia is known as the Cold War. […]

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World Dollar Hegemony Is Ending (and That May Be a Good Thing)

November 8, 2022

World Dollar Hegemony Is Ending (and That May Be a Good Thing) 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 currency accepted throughout the world for settlement of […]

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Counterfeiting Money Is a Crime — Whether Done by the Fed or A Private Individual

April 15, 2019

Counterfeiting Money Is a Crime — Whether Done by the Fed or A Private Individual A few years ago, shortly after the 2008 subprime lending disaster, the Fed sent a public relations team around the country to conduct supposedly “educational sessions” about how the Fed works and the wonderful things it does. The public was […]

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China’s Currency Manipulation Does NOT Harm Its Trading Partners

June 19, 2018

China’s Currency Manipulation Does NOT Harm Its Trading Partners Americans are being told that China’s currency manipulations are causing harm to its trading partners, America being the main victim. Nothing could be further from the truth. China’s currency manipulations certainly cause harm, but to China itself! No country can cause harm to another by adopting […]

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Can an Economy Advance Without Savings?

January 21, 2018

Can an Economy Advance Without Savings? According to Frank Decker, Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney Law School, it certainly can. Not only that, but eschewing savings in favor of “monetisation of assets” will yield better results! I refer to his article in Economic Affairs–Volume 37, Number 3, October 2017–, a publication of the […]

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My letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer in defense of Brexit

June 18, 2016

My letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer in defense of Brexit Dear Sirs: Trudy Rubin claims that “Brexit would be a huge step backward”, but she never explains why. Oh, she does correlate the growth of the EU regulatory state with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but this is not cause-and-effect. The Soviet Union collapsed because NATO […]

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The history, meaning, and probable end of “dollar hegemony”

March 21, 2016

The history, meaning, and probable end of “dollar hegemony” This thirty minute interview is part one of a two part series. Part two will be released next week. In this interview I explain how the dollar became the world’s leading reserve currency, what it means to be a reserve currency, how the US has benefited financially from […]

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Where Negative Interest Rates Will Lead Us

February 25, 2016

Where Negative Interest Rates Will Lead Us  Despite zero-interest-rate-policy (ZIRP) and multiple quantitative easing programs — whereby the central bank buys large quantities of assets while leaving interest rates at practically zero — the world’s economies are stuck in the doldrums. The central banks’ only accomplishment seems to be an increase in public and private […]

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The implications of a reduction of Chinese holdings of US government debt

August 30, 2015

The implications of a reduction of Chinese holdings of US government debt Dear Readers, Below is my response to a reader of my blog, who asked about the implications of China reducing its holdings of US treasury debt. Pat Barron Dear Lawrence, I think that in the simplest terms, China is exiting the market for […]

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Patrick Barron interview with Jeff Deist re: The End of the US Dollar Imperium-Part 1 – Ludwig von Mises Institute Canada

October 26, 2014

Patrick Barron interview with Jeff Deist re: The End of the US Dollar Imperium-Part 1 – Ludwig von Mises Institute Canada. Jeff Deist and Patrick Barron address the issue of monetary imperialism. How does the US use the dollar as a weapon of economic and cultural power? How long can it last? What might the […]

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