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The punishment of the “madman”: Is Trump's actions eroding the economic power of the United States?

The punishment of the “madman”: Is Trump's actions eroding the economic power of the United States?

This is some candid, non-academic language that describes unusual patterns in the American market brought to you by a currency-policy historian. stock? down. Dollar? Same. Demand for U.S. bonds? Also sinking. This shouldn't happen – not all at once. But Barry Eichengreen saw a historic reaction, where there is indeed a common theme: collapse in…

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Old video distorts Indonesian legislature's “refusal to seize assets against grafted criminals”

Old video distorts Indonesian legislature's “refusal to seize assets against grafted criminals”

Several executives at a subsidiary of Indonesia's state-owned energy company were arrested on suspicion of corruption and demanded that their assets be seized. Social media users shared an old video that falsely claimed it showed that parliament rejected a bill, thus seizing assets of convicted grafters, but in fact, the clip portrayed chaos among parliamentarians…

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