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The Taliban economy: Will drugs be enough to support the Afghan people?That is what experts are saying the Taliban will soon find after the Biden administration’s decision to abandon Afghanistan was followed by a hostile takeover of the nation by...
By Alex Zerden
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Taliban Takeover Is a Boon for Cash-Strapped Iran
Read the full story and more from The Wall Street Journal....
By Rachel Ziemba
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China’s digital yuan is a warning to the world
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In April 2020 a grainy screenshot of China’s sovereign digital currency, DCEP (short for Digital Currency/Electronic Payments) or the Digital Chinese Yuan (DCNY), was leaked o...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Economic Crisis Looms for Afghanistan Under Taliban Rule
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As the Taliban take power in Afghanistan for the first time in 20 years, Afghans face not only a humanitarian crisis but also an economic crisis that threatens to make an alre...
By Alex Zerden
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Cutting the Taliban off from global trade could be a tall order
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The head of Afghanistan’s central bank has fled the country. The U.S. has cut off the central bank’s access to reserves held here and may end up taking other steps to isolate ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Ranking the Currencies That Could Unseat the Dollar
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Half a century ago today, on August 15, 1971, U.S. President Richard Nixon took a momentous step. After World War II, the U.S. had used its leverage as the last advanced econo...
By Emily Jin
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The End of Exorbitant Privilege: Inflation, the Global Dollar and What Comes Next
This year has been rife with anxiety about inflation. Economist Lawrence Summers sent up an early warning flare in March, speculating that debt-financed government coronavirus...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Should Chinese Bitcoin miners move to the world and the United States should welcome it with open arms?
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Since May this year, the Chinese government has severely cracked down on Bitcoin trading and mining, causing Bitcoin miners to have to look elsewhere. Including the states of ...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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As Biden Prepares to Finally Leave, Iraq Faces a New 'Existential Crisis'
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The headlines coming out of U.S. President Joe Biden’s meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi last week were about the largely symbolic decision to end America’s...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Why does the Federal Reserve need a digital currency?
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Digital money is nothing new—debit and credit cards have been with us for years. What’s changed is its pervasiveness. With fewer people carrying paper money, and with some pla...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Iraq's energy deals in limbo as US pledges help for clean projects
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Iraq's $8 billion worth of energy deals with US companies clinched in August 2020 during the prime minister's inaugural visit to Washington have yet to bear fruit, but Mustafa...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Analysts still expect US, Iran to reach deal to lift oil sanctions despite growing delay
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A deal to remove US sanctions on Iran's oil and other energy exports still remains the consensus view among analysts, but the possibility of talks collapsing has started to gr...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Iranian Oil Executive Removed From U.S. Sanctions List Remains Active in Sector
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An Iranian oil executive removed from U.S. financial blacklists last month because he had resigned from Iran’s national oil company now holds senior positions with two Iranian...
By Jason Bartlett
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Biden to Temper U.S. Use of Sanctions Weapons, Officials Say
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The Biden administration is revamping the way the U.S. uses punitive sanctions, aiming to stem sweeping pressure campaigns, avoid collateral economic damage and act jointly wi...
By Jason Bartlett
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China on Cusp of Eliminating Cash, Pushing the World Toward Total Government Surveillance
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The Chinese were the first in the world to invent paper money back in the 7th Century. Now, more than 1,400 years later, China is again on the cusp of creating a new form of g...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Memes, NFTs, sanctions: North Korea and the evolving world of cryptocurrencies
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As the market for cryptocurrency grows and the wider public engages with the technology behind it, there are new opportunities for illicit actors like North Korea to take adva...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Russia Stumbles in Bid to Fight Global Price Surge With Duties
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Russia’s answer to the surge in global commodity prices has been a mass experiment with duties, export curbs and price controls. It’s not working. Inflation has spiked to the ...
By Elina Ribakova
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The future of money: The digital currency revolution is here, and may sweep away 5,000 years of monetary history
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There is a coming storm in the world of finance as governments around the world engage in a global contest to digitize their currenciesRead the full article and more from The ...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Russia Cuts Dollar Holdings From $119 Billion Wealth Fund Amid Sanctions
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Russia said it will eliminate the dollar from its oil fund to reduce vulnerability to Western sanctions just two weeks before President Vladimir Putin holds his first summit m...
By Elina Ribakova
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Biden signs order banning investment in dozens of Chinese defence and tech firmsUS President Joe Biden on Thursday (June 3) barred Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese companies in the defence sector or whose surveillance technology aids in serio...
By Martijn Rasser
