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US's New Tariffs: A New Act in Trade Wars

18 Feb 2025 3 minute read 1 comment Perfectionist25

After re-establishing his presidency, US President Donald Trump has resumed his protectionist trade policies. The new presidential decree he signed, which will impose additional tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China, directly targets three...

"DOGE is SMOGE"

17 Feb 2025 1 minute read 6 comments Vladan Lausevic

TL;DR  In Trump’s Mass Firing of Inspectors General Bulldozed the Way for Elon Musk’s Unaccountable Shadow Government, Paul Matzko (The UnPopulist, Feb 2025) examines how Trump’s dismissal of 17 inspectors general (IGs) weakened federal oversig...

The FED wants to use stablecoin to strengthen the dollar

9 Feb 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Galaxie Crypto

In the US, the idea of a central bank digital currency is not appealing. The FED has a different strategy. While in many countries states are considering the introduction of digital central bank currencies, the US seems to be taking a different path...

SEC Crypto Task Force, Hester Peirce explains

5 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Galaxie Crypto

During the month of January, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that its commissioner Hester Peirce was leading a working group on cryptocurrencies.   The “task force” will have to work on creating a regulatory framework for crypt...

China plans to impose tariffs on oil imports

4 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Imad Eddine Aris

China is preparing to announce retaliatory measures against the United States after Donald Trump's administration decided to release tariffs on imports from the People's Republic last weekend. According to some news reports on Tuesday morning, China...

DeepSeek, an AI Model That Compete With Some of the Top Models in the US

1 Feb 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Perfectionist25

They said they did it at a fraction of the cost. They said the whole training thing cost them $6 million. Companies in the US have spent billions of dollars building the same models. So in its current form, DeepSeek breaks a few big assumptions: Mayb...

USA and Bitcoin: who will be the first to bet on the future?

31 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments CryptoMax1387

A new split has appeared on the US map — not on politics, but on bitcoin. Some states are actively promoting initiatives to integrate BTC into their government reserves, while others are ignoring this trend. What's happening? Bills have already been...

Apps, social media and shopping - general differences between USA and China

28 Jan 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR In "How Chinese Apps Like TikTok Hook U.S. Users With Shopping and Entertainment Algorithms," Tiffany Ap and Kinling Lo, writing for Rest of World, explore how Chinese social media platforms such as TikTok, Xiaohongshu, and Lemon8 dominate user...

DeepSeek Panic in Markets

28 Jan 2025 9 minute read 5 comments Perfectionist25

There is a sharp pullback in crypto. The reason is a new major language model coming out of China. In other words, an artificial intelligence model, called DeepSeek. DeepSeek users are amazed by this new model. It is currently ranked number one in th...

Is “Made in USA" the next big crypto narrative?

23 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments CryptoMax1387

A year ago, we saw how the narrative of “Chinese coins” sent tokens from China into vertical growth. Now, amid changes in policy and regulation, it looks like it's the turn of American projects. Let's find out why the United States may become the cen...