by Daniel Brouse April 19, 2025 The recent flight from the U.S. dollar reflects a growing movement by investors and central banks to reduce their holdings of dollar-denominated assets—like U.S. Treasury bonds—in favor of alternative currencies, commodities such as gold, or more stable markets offering higher returns. This trend is accelerating due to a combination […]
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The Dollar in Decline: Capital Flight, Reserve Status, and America’s Economic Reckoning
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It’s the Service, Stupid: Understanding the Real U.S. Economy
By Daniel Brouse April 17, 2025 One of the most fundamental misconceptions of Trumpenomics is the belief that the United States is—or should be—a manufacturing-first economy. In reality, the U.S. has evolved into a service-based powerhouse and is now the world’s largest exporter of services, including finance, healthcare, education, software, intellectual property, and other knowledge-driven […]
WTO Warns of Global Trade Slump as U.S. Tariff Policies Hit North America Hardest
By Daniel Brouse April 16, 2025 The World Trade Organization (WTO) highlighted significant concerns regarding the impact of U.S. tariff policies on the global economy, with North America experiencing the most pronounced negative effects. Global Trade Outlook Deteriorates The WTO has revised its 2025 forecast for global merchandise trade, now predicting a 0.2% decline, a […]
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Cracked Safe Haven: Historic Deviations in U.S. Treasury Bonds
By Daniel Brouse April 16, 2025 Exceeding a standard deviation means that a data point is significantly different from the average — a statistical red flag. In finance or economics: A move of 1 standard deviation is unusual but not rare. 2 or more indicates extreme behavior — often signaling stress, instability, or systemic change. […]
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Tipping Points and the Domino Effect
By Daniel Brouse and Sidd MukherjeeSeptember 2022 – August 2023 (Updated April 2025) Understanding Tipping Points Tipping points and feedback loops are key factors in determining the rate of acceleration of climate change. When one tipping point is breached and triggers others to fall, the result is known as the Domino Effect. To explain: push […]
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Deviation, Cracked Fractals, Climate, and Economics
by Daniel Brouse April 14, 2025 Cracked Fractals & U.S. Climate/Fiscal Policy The U.S. economy and climate systems are exhibiting the erratic behavior of complex systems approaching critical thresholds — resembling “cracked fractals,” those chaotic, fragile patterns that form when dynamic systems near collapse. These structures are not just visual metaphors; they represent branching futures, […]
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The Demise of the Dollar and U.S. Exceptionalism
by Daniel Brouse April 13, 2025 Economic Collapse Ends the Era of Mass Consumption, Capitalism, and Fossil Fuel Dependence In 2017 and 2018, many economists warned of rising inflation and interest rates due to Donald Trump’s economic, environmental, and social policies — warnings that were largely dismissed at the time. Few believed the U.S. dollar, […]
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Dollar Outflows, Fed Policy, and Foreign Mortgage Holdings Amid Economic Strain
by Daniel Brouse April 13, 2025 Over the past three months, global capital flows, Federal Reserve policy, and the health of U.S. mortgage-backed securities have each come under renewed pressure as economic uncertainty deepens. The confluence of a weakening dollar, rising international disinvestment, and domestic credit strains is redefining the outlook for U.S. financial stability. […]
The Race Against Time: Climate Crisis vs. the United States
by Daniel Brouse April 12, 2025 AbstractHumanity stands at a historic crossroads where the accelerating pace of climate change threatens to overtake both our capacity for response and the viability of the global economic system itself. Recent models indicate that without immediate intervention, climate change could cause the collapse of capitalism as we know it—potentially […]
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When Hypothesis Becomes Theory: Trump’s Trade War Has Triggered a Global Credit War
by Daniel Brouse April 11, 2025 For decades, economists have quietly asked a disturbing hypothetical: What happens if the U.S. launches a trade war and a credit war at the same time? It was an academic curiosity — a thought experiment for textbooks, not real life. Until now. Donald Trump has turned that hypothesis into […]
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