Mona Ali

Who Benefits From the Dollar’s Dominance? The US dollar is used by governments and investors around the world for trade and as a safe asset. Jacobin asked economist Mona Ali if Donald Trump’s tariffs are destroying trust in the currency and w...

An illuminating and incisive interview with @mona-ali.bsky.social on dollar dominance.

“The dollar is perhaps the preeminent source of US hegemony. Like dark matter in the physical universe, dollar balance sheets are largely invisible to the public eye. They exist mainly in private hands.”

The U.S. leaving the IMF would be the biggest world historical opportunity for global development in decades. CC/ @mona-ali.bsky.social @kpatricio.bsky.social @cashman.bsky.social @laramerling.bsky.social

Debt, Energy, and Sovereignty: Past and Present - Middle East & North Africa Introduction The financial and trade warfare launched by western allies on Russia after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was unquestionably unprecedented, yet the triangulation between external deb...

<A history of the hydrocarbon dollar> Wrote about the triangulation between external debt, energy infrastructure, and sovereignty. Thanks very much to Colin Powers for his brilliant editing. noria-research.com/mena/debt-en...

And I love you too. xxx

Regime Change? | Mona Ali On the evolution of dollar hierarchy from Bretton Woods I to the present, and the weaponization of the world dollar.

@phenomenalworld.bsky.social still very actual this from @mona-ali.bsky.social re-echo De Cecco analysis on sterling power (no it was not the gold standard) and fall of status as global currency. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/reg...

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system

Like the Sally Rooney school of political economy? www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p.... Then here's a reader just for you with two brilliant essays on capitalism and the climate crisis and much more besides. www.routledge.com/Radical-Poli...

full moon at dusk above gyeonbokgung palace gate in Seoul

Full moon, Seoul late afternoon, happy impeachment day everyone

Vista above the traffic jam

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system

Like the Sally Rooney school of political economy? www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p.... Then here's a reader just for you with two brilliant essays on capitalism and the climate crisis and much more besides. www.routledge.com/Radical-Poli...

I love how giggly this conversation amongst cosmologists is: on Newton’s legacy, sheets in spacetime, wormholes and other excitements of the universe.

Downward Mobilisation Private investment cannot and should not drive decarbonisation. It's obvious: we need the state.

"To argue that scarcity in public financial capacity justifies and demands a reliance on private finance is deeply irresponsible."

Recommended read to make sense of COP29 - @advaitarun.bsky.social for @the-breakdown.bsky.social on "mobilising private finance"

www.break-down.org/post/downwar...

Nile River delta at night | NASA

Du Bois wrapped/serpentine bar chart seemed apt for this one.

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Saturn captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft