Tag: currency wars

The End of Dollar Hegemony Part 3 (of a 4 Part Series)

To add geopolitics to international finance, let us do another example – that of the 2008 stock market crash and a financial upheaval. This whole thing was planned nearly 8 years earlier, precisely in September 2000. The background has to do with Iraq! Let us begin. Currency Wars Historically, a currency war involves competitive devaluations […]

Currency Wars Part 3 (of a 3 part series)

In order to better understand current financial movements and directions, let us go back 40 years to explain the dollarization of the global economy, and how this has benefited only one group of financiers – the Rockefeller family, as the overlords of the American Empire. The petro-dollar was born in 1975. That same year saw […]

Currency Wars Part 2 (of a 3 part series)

Historically, a currency war involves competitive devaluations by countries seeking to lower their cost structures, increase exports, create jobs and give their economies a boost at the expense of trading partners.  This is not the only possible course for a currency war. There is a far more insidious scenario in which currencies are used as weapons […]

Decline of Global Trade

While the global economy is doing well, the amount of stuff that is imported and exported around the world goes up, and when the global economy is in recession, the amount of stuff that is imported and exported around the world goes down. It is just economics. Governments have become very adept at manipulating other measures […]

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