The Chinese Communist Party is pushing for a multipolar world order with a global movement for other nations to drop the U.S. dollar as their reserve currency. This would greatly undermine American influence in world affairs. We speak to Alex Newman, author and international journalist, about what this means for America. …

Commentary I’ve never been comfortable hearing others talk about the unseen, unknowable “they,” as if “they” were a cluster of faceless, soulless puppeteers directing our fates against which one was powerless. The whole idea always had a disturbing and distasteful tinge of paranoia about it to me. But one must be clear-eyed about events and…

The U.S. dollar’s international status as the chief reserve currency is slowly diminishing as other countries diversify their assets, warns Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. During a Housing Financial Services Committee on June 13, multiple Republican and Democratic lawmakers lobbed questions surrounding the risk of the worldwide de-dollarization campaign that has accelerated over the past year….

Commentary The potential U.S. debt ceiling and U.S. dollar status problems reignite the discussion of de-dollarization. The status of U.S. dollar will no doubt be firmly anchored in the financial market, which has already been discussed here previously. But the U.S. dollar share of goods trade is claimed to be jeopardized by the Chinese mouthpieces…

Countries that are joining China and Russia in their de-dollarization campaign could be “acting against their own self-interest,” warned John Kirby, the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council in the White House. Argentina will pay for imports from China in yuan instead of U.S. dollars to prevent a further decline in the…

Former president Donald Trump warned that the U.S. currency was crashing and wouldn’t be the world standard any longer. He may have been onto something. Recently, Russia, China, and Brazil have been part of the growing list of countries that have embarked on policy of de-dollarization. Understanding dollarization and how it affects both the United…

Commentary The divide of the world reignites the discussion of de-dollarization. As the U.S. dollar index depreciated from 115 to 101 or nearly 12 percent, anyone, including foreign governments, that held too much U.S. dollar would try to underweight it. While the existing holders of Treasuries would be subject to mark-to-market loss when bond yields…

It has been nearly a decade since China and Russia fired the opening salvo in their quest to dismantle the U.S. dollar’s standing as the chief international reserve currency. These de-dollarization efforts have accelerated over the past 12 months, with more countries joining Beijing and Moscow’s anti-dollar crusade. As many governments attempt to undermine the…

For the past five months, China’s central bank has been increasing its gold reserves while simultaneously decreasing its holdings of U.S. bonds. Industry experts believe that this move is in anticipation of future sanctions that China may face. According to data recently released by China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange and reported by financial news…

A longstanding plan by China and Russia to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency has had a string of recent headline-grabbing successes, as China methodically builds a rival monetary system that has been dubbed “Bretton Woods III.” This currency initiative is the financial component of China’s strategy to gain influence over global…