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How the GENIUS Act, CLARITY Act, and Anti-CBDC legislation created the foundation for Trump’s crypto revolution, and why their passage represents the most significant expansion of presidential conflicts of interest in American monetary history. Digital Bretton Woods: America’s Third Monetary Revolution — Part 3 of 6 In the annals of American monetary history, few moments…
How Trump’s 2025 Crypto Policies Represent a Dramatic Regulatory About-Face in Modern Financial History Digital Bretton Woods: America’s Third Monetary Revolution – Part 2 of 6 On July 31, 2025, Paul Atkins stood before an audience at the America First Policy Institute and delivered what may prove to be one of the most consequential regulatory…
Digital Bretton Woods: America’s Third Monetary Revolution – Part 1 of 6 On a humid August weekend in 1971, a handful of President Richard Nixon’s most trusted advisors gathered in the shrouded secrecy of Camp David. The topic was not war or diplomacy in the traditional sense, but economic survival. The United States, strained by…
The U.S. economy posted impressive 3% growth in the second quarter of 2025, but this headline masks a more troubling reality: an economy losing steam while trade policies create misleading statistical mirages. **The Real Story Behind the Numbers** The Commerce Department’s latest data shows real GDP surged at a 3% annual rate from April through…
The Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, is currently navigating an intricate economic landscape, balancing its fundamental mandate of fostering maximum employment and ensuring price stability with increasing external pressures. Its recent decision to hold interest rates steady perfectly illustrates this delicate balancing act, especially as the institution also grapples with the significant, long-term financial implications…
On August 1, 2025, President Donald Trump abruptly fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, just hours after the agency released a July jobs report showing a sharp slowdown in hiring—and downward revisions totaling 258,000 lost jobs from May and June1. The action stunned markets and triggered widespread concern about political interference in an…