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.”

13.07.2025 15:19 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

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...

25.03.2025 14:30 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

And I love you too. xxx

23.03.2025 01:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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...

25.02.2025 16:23 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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...

28.11.2024 00:50 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

full moon at dusk above gyeonbokgung palace gate in Seoul

Full moon, Seoul late afternoon, happy impeachment day everyone

14.12.2024 10:19 — 👍 178    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

Vista above the traffic jam

10.12.2024 03:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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...

28.11.2024 00:50 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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

26.11.2024 21:21 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nile River delta at night | NASA

24.11.2024 04:37 — 👍 944    🔁 66    💬 12    📌 1

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

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