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Tariffs · New YorkThere has been much speculation in financial circles that the White House’s erratic policymaking, random tariffs, and general shoot-from-the-hip approach could undermine the global role of the dollar, which could perhaps be replaced by the euro. I have no insight into that but I am confident that Europe’s single currency won’t replace greenbacks as criminals’ favourite money laundering tool any time soon. Ordinary people are using cash money les…Read Article
Criminal dollars, Trump's crypto trapdoor, and Dalek solicitors - Coda Story
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New York City · New YorkOn August 7, 2008, Maguli Okropiridze, almost nine months pregnant, fled her village of Ergneti in the Georgian region of South Ossetia. For Maguli, who had become used to a life lived in the backdrop of bullets and artillery shells, it took a week of heavy shelling to push her out of her home. She had finally decided to flee what was now a war zone. But the stress of evacuating herself and her four children sent her into labour. With just a qua…Read Article
Why Georgia's National Memory is on Trial - Coda Story
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New York City · New YorkThere are now several books about the 2007-8 financial crisis, the best of which, in my opinion, is Adam Tooze’s ‘Crashed’. But the one that everyone remembers is Michael Lewis’s ‘The Big Short’, later made into a movie starring Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Brad Pitt. Its narrative of misfits spotting the mistake everyone else was making is pleasing and elegant, so it’s easy to see why it’s so popular. Sadly, however, it’s com…Read Article
A Crypto-fueled Crash, How Blockchain Blunts Sanctions & MBS’ Folly - Coda Story
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