Press
Showing 521-540 of 956 Items
-
Donors pledging billions in aid to Afghanistan face a challenge: Navigating the Taliban
In The News
One month after the fall of its U.S.-supported government to the Taliban, Afghanistan faces crises of astronomical levels: millions facing starvation, a nationwide liquidity c...
By Alex Zerden
-
Bitcoin Won’t Save the Afghan People
In The News
Over the past few years, the residents of countries in financial distress have increasingly turned to cryptocurrency. In Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines and Venezuela, crypto ...
By Alex Zerden
-
Inflation could spark new global financial crisis, says Russia’s central bank
In The News
“Against this global setting, the CBR [Russian central bank] did the right thing of getting ahead of inflation with hikes,” said Elina Ribakova.Read the full story and more fr...
By Elina Ribakova
-
U.S. Wrestles With Taliban Sanctions as Afghan Crisis Looms
In The News
America’s war in Afghanistan is over, but the fight over the Taliban’s finances is only beginning. The fate of billions of dollars of international reserves and foreign aid re...
By Alex Zerden
-
In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Short on Money, Legal and Otherwise, the Taliban Face a CrisisAs Afghans pay surging prices for eggs and flour and stand in long lines at the bank, money changers like Enayatullah and his underground financial lifeline have found themsel...
By Alex Zerden
-
In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
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
-
Taliban Takeover Is a Boon for Cash-Strapped Iran
Read the full story and more from The Wall Street Journal....
By Rachel Ziemba
-
China’s digital yuan is a warning to the world
In The News
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
-
Economic Crisis Looms for Afghanistan Under Taliban Rule
In The News
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
-
Cutting the Taliban off from global trade could be a tall order
In The News
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
-
Ranking the Currencies That Could Unseat the Dollar
In The News
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
-
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
-
Should Chinese Bitcoin miners move to the world and the United States should welcome it with open arms?
In The News
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
-
As Biden Prepares to Finally Leave, Iraq Faces a New 'Existential Crisis'
In The News
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
-
Why does the Federal Reserve need a digital currency?
In The News
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
-
Iraq's energy deals in limbo as US pledges help for clean projects
In The News
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
-
Analysts still expect US, Iran to reach deal to lift oil sanctions despite growing delay
In The News
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
-
Iranian Oil Executive Removed From U.S. Sanctions List Remains Active in Sector
In The News
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
-
Biden to Temper U.S. Use of Sanctions Weapons, Officials Say
In The News
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
-
China on Cusp of Eliminating Cash, Pushing the World Toward Total Government Surveillance
In The News
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
