Triffin gained enormous influence by reviving the interwar story that gold scarcity threatened deflation. In particular, he held that central banks needed to accumulate claims on the United States to ...

‘My Chronic Hives Were Dismissed by Doctors for Years—Here’s How I Finally Got a Diagnosis (and Found Relief)’ Emmeka Hawkins was diagnosed with chronic spontaneous urticaria, or chronic ...

Jeff Park argues a prolonged tariff war could positively impact Bitcoin by driving global investors to alternative assets like Bitcoin. Park explains the Triffin dilemma and how the US dollar's status ...

Indeed, the continuing desire to manage exchange rates despite increased capital mobility post-2003 may be a key factor underpinning the modern-day Triffin dilemma that some have recently pointed to.

The first effort at getting countries together to lower tariffs for the benefit of all, started in 1947 at Geneva when the ...

Says Yale’s Robert Triffin, a ranking gold expert: “It would help unfriendly nations and hurt our friends, and lead to the collapse of international monetary cooperation.” The biggest gold ...

Our discussion encompasses the history of anchor currency choice, methods for classifying exchange rate regimes, a detailed discussion of the evolution of regimes, the growing substitution of reserves ...

For my mobile readers: To understand tariffs today, there are two contexts you have to frame the conversation in: 1) the curse of the Triffin dilemma, and 2) Trump’s personal goals. By analyzing both, ...

According to Jeff Park, Head of Alpha Strategies at Bitwise, this strategy connects to the Triffin dilemma—an issue tied to the U.S. dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency. This is the only ...

While this would normally lead to credit risk in U.S. assets — known as the Triffin tipping point — and lead to its loss as the world’s reserve currency, there are no credible alternatives ...

Trade Wars With the new US presidency, a different type of international policy is going to be conducted, reminiscent of some aspects of Trump's first four years as a president. Back then we saw, as ...