Perspective Chapter: The Future of Wholesale CBDCs in a Tokenizing and Trumpian World
Globally, the private sector is moving towards expanding the growth of tokenized assets trading, using private money channels (stablecoins) as payment systems.
Future Of Money: Central Bank Digital Currencies
This paper examines the rationale behind the exploration by the vast majority of central banks of introducing central bank digital currencies.
Biden’s New Washington Consensus in a Trumpian World
In April 2023, Jake Sullivan, in a speech to the Brookings Institute, formally announced the replacement of what had become known since the1990s as the Washington Consensus with a New Washington Consensus.
HFX is the Danger
In late November 2020, the Halifax International Security Forum (HFX), published what they term as a “handbook about China for democracies” . It is claimed to be “perhaps the first comprehensive compendium of vital information about the very serious and urgent test that now confronts the world’s democracies*, or more simply, “Beijing is not our friend”.