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U.S. to Transfer Afghan Funds to Swiss Bank for Safekeeping
In The News
The Biden administration hopes availability of the funds for such critical foreign currency payments can help ease the economic suffering of the Afghan population and potentia...
By Alex Zerden
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Wall Street Doesn’t Hate This Spending Bill
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The U.S. responded by freezing Afghanistan’s foreign exchange reserves in New York — $7 billion worth. President Biden set aside half of that for relatives of Sept. 11 victims...
By Alex Zerden
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Global Food Crisis Tests Western Resolve to Retain Russia Sanctions
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In Yemen, the price of bread surged 35 percent the week Russia invaded Ukraine. Wheat mills lacking grain in Lebanon have halted operations in recent months, forcing bakeries ...
By Alex Zerden
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Web3 is set to transform the internet. Can it bring global social and economic change?
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What is Web3? How are we going to use it? What does it mean for our future? What are its limitations and points of opportunity? Alex Zerden joins Khushbu Shah from The Atlanti...
By Alex Zerden
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The Future of Crypto Regulations: 4 Experts Weigh In
Until recently, the cryptocurrency world was a wild wild west for regulators. However, as the industry has matured, there has been a marked change in perspective where policym...
By Alex Zerden
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A Would-Be Crypto Baron Plies His Trade in the Taliban’s Shadow
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Cryptocurrency booms are often fueled by dreams of life-changing riches. In Afghanistan, buyers are instead snapping up digital coins in hopes of preserving what wealth they h...
By Alex Zerden
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SEC Chair Gary Gensler Seeks to Regulate Crypto Platforms ‘Like Exchanges’
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking into crypto trading platforms being “registered and regulated much like exchanges,” Chair Gary Gensler said April 4. “I...
By Alex Zerden
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War in Ukraine, Fed Rate Hikes & Inflation: How Will These Events Affect Bitcoin?
Alex Zerden — founder of Capitol Peak Strategies, adjunct senior fellow at Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and a former Treasury Department official — told GOBanking...
By Alex Zerden
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Crypto’s War Test Leaves Future of Money Debate Wide Open
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Crypto had already been seeping into every corner of culture and conversation. Then came Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and crypto went to war, too. The sector’s involvement in...
By Alex Zerden
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Russians look to UAE to escape economic turmoil as sanctions bite
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"The first question I have when Russian clients call me is 'where is the money?'" Almas, a real estate broker in Dubai, told Middle East Eye. The 55-year-old Russian speaker,...
By Alex Zerden
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War in the time of crypto
In times of crisis, there is no good; there’s only a best course of action, given the circumstances. Is crypto good in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Is it bad? ...
By Alex Zerden
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Spurning Demand by the Taliban, Biden Moves to Split $7 Billion in Frozen Afghan Funds
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President Biden is starting to clear a legal path for relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to pursue $3.5 billion that Afghanistan’s central bank had deposited ...
By Alex Zerden
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Threat of Hard-Hitting Russia Sanctions Leaves U.S. Companies Planning for All Scenarios
U.S. companies with interests in Russia are rushing to draw up contingency plans as Washington threatens sanctions should President Vladimir Putin order troops into Ukraine. I...
By Alex Zerden
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How to Help Afghans Without Aiding the Taliban
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In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, aid groups are overwhelmed by the starving. More than half the population, the United Nations has warned, won’t get enough to eat this winte...
By Alex Zerden
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Donors pledging billions in aid to Afghanistan face a challenge: Navigating the Taliban
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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
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Bitcoin Won’t Save the Afghan People
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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
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U.S. Wrestles With Taliban Sanctions as Afghan Crisis Looms
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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
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Short on Money, Legal and Otherwise, the Taliban Face a Crisis
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As 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
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The Taliban economy: Will drugs be enough to support the Afghan people?
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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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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
