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Dollar Power and Defense Budgets: How U.S. Monetary Policy Shapes Global Security

The United States enjoys a unique position in which its currency serves as the primary reserve asset, invoicing currency, and settlement medium for global trade and finance. This position allows Washington to finance large fiscal deficits, including defense spending, at relatively low cost compared with other major powers.

Windriargo Hario Widodo
March 28, 2026

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The Best Investor aren’t on Wall Street, they’re at Capitol Hill

In the classical imagination of liberal capitalism, markets and governments perform distinct, almost complementary roles. Markets allocate capital through price signals; governments set the rules of the game. One is meant to be impersonal, the other accountable. The boundary between the two has never been perfectly clean, but for much of the post-war era it was at least intelligible. That boundary is now eroding.

Hairul Mazdi
March 25, 2026