18F and USDS both aim to modernize government technology, but with divergent approaches: one ships culture, the other ships confidence.
annotations: Que faire face à la sous-évaluation des monnaies asiatiques ?
Traduction française du billet de blog de Jeffrey Frankel, "Undervaluation of Asian currencies"
SWIFT Payment Statistics 2026: 15.1B Messages, Currency Data
SWIFT moved 15.1B messages in 2025, up 12.1%. USD held 50.99% of payment value in July 2026. Regional flow, speed and cost data, sourced and dated. SWIFT Payment Statistics 2026 update.
annotations: L’obsession pour les taux de change fixes nuit aux pays en développement
Traduction du billet de blog "Fixation with fixed exchange rates harms developing countries" de Douglas A. Irwin, Adnan Mazarei & Maurice Obstfeld
Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics
Tech, trade, finance and military policies are mingling in a manner not seen during the neoliberal era
Is the US dollar's reserve currency status eroding? | Brookings
Robin Brooks analyzes changes in the U.S. dollar's reserve currency status during the second Trump administration.
The U.S. Dollar’s Role as a Reserve Currency
One of the U.S. dollar’s influential international roles is as the dominant reserve currency, widely used in international foreign exchange reserves, which are rainy day funds for governments.
Looking for a “fair” international monetary system
President Trump’s Chief Economic Adviser, Stephen Miran, has claimed that the international monetary system in which the US provides the rest of the world with a safe, liquid asset is “unfair” as it supposedly prevents the US from eliminating its current account deficit. His proposed solution is to lower the value of the dollar through coordinated currency market intervention by foreign central banks. This column finds the idea that there could be lasting reversal of exchange rates following an international currency agreement highly speculative, and argues that a multipolar system would attenuate the Triffin dilemma and provide the US with a deficit-adjustment tool.
Star Citizen Trade, Commodities, Routes, Marketplace, Ships, Mining - 4.6.0 LIVE - Welcome - UEX
Star Citizen Trade, Mining, Marketplace, Crew, Ships and more
Natixis Research
Natixis, CIB, Research, Macroeconomics, Economy, Market analysis, Asset allocation. Rates, Fx, Commodities, Central Banks, ECB, FED, Green, Hydrogen, Infrastructure, Mobility, Digital Assets, Healthcare, Real Estate, high yield, Recherche, analyses macro, marchés et sectorielles. France, Etats-Unis, Europe, Chine, Emergents, Banques Centrales, BCE, ESG, Hydrogène, Transports, Taux, changes, Commodities, Santé, immobilier
annotations: La globalisation, la fragmentation et le système monétaire international
Traduction française de "Globalisation, fragmentation, and the international monetary system" de Barry Eichengreen
annotations: Une réévaluation du yuan chinois contribuerait à réduire les déséquilibres mondiaux
traduction française du billet de blog "Currency revaluation is income rebalancing" de Michael Pettis
The Sovereign Accountable Commons
Culture-Hacking, Alt.Education, Targeted Currency Design, NextNet Technologies.
On the immaturity of tokenized value capture mechanisms
Pursuing value in an age of borderless-ness, experimental monetary policies, costless forks and unlimited innovation.
Technological Hubris → Term
Meaning → Excessive confidence in technology as a universal problem-solver, overlooking broader impacts and limitations. → Term
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls new U.S. tariffs ‘a miscalculation’ after trade talks collapse
The U.S. import taxes will apply to hockey sticks, building materials, liquors and certain kinds of clothing. Carney said “Canada will match those tariffs dollar for dollar.”
I don't believe that anyone has written up a comparison, part of the problem is that we lack enough transparency into W's plans to answer that question. I can offer a brief @eurosky.social perspective, and maybe @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu knows enough to offer a view from W. 🧵
