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2 févr. 2026, 16:08

La Chine entend accroître l'usage international du yuan, selon le Financial Times. Dans cette optique, Pékin viserait à en faire une monnaie capable de rivaliser avec les principales devises de réserve dans le commerce mondial et les flux financiers.

Le président chinois, Xi Jinping, a appelé à faire du yuan une monnaie de réserve mondiale et à en élargir l'usage dans le commerce international, l'investissement et les marchés des changes, rapporte le Financial Times (FT).

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Professor Michael Hudson's interview with Lena Petrova

January 24, 2026

LENA PETROVA:

Thank you for joining us. I'm Lena Petrova with a new episode of the World Affairs in Context podcast. Today, I'm absolutely honored to be joined by Professor Michael Hudson.

Please follow Michael at michael-hudson.com, where you can find transcripts of his recent interviews and a variety of articles on current events.

By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack

February 2, 2026

On January 30th, the BBC headlined "UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns", and reported:

António Guterres said the organisation's money could run out by July

The United Nations is at risk of "imminent financial collapse" due to member states not paying their fees, the body's head has warned.

António Guterres said the UN faced a financial crisis which was "deepening, threatening programme delivery", and that money could run out by July.

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31 janv. 2026, 19:38

Avant le 1er février, l'Ukraine doit effectuer son plus important paiement unique de 2026 au FMI, soit environ 187,6 millions de dollars. Cette échéance intervient dans un contexte de déficit budgétaire record, de paiements manqués et d'une aide occidentale en baisse, accentuant la pression financière sur Kiev.

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30 janv. 2026, 14:05

La capitalisation totale du marché mondial des cryptomonnaies, qui avait atteint un record d'environ 1 100 milliards de dollars début janvier, a perdu près de 200 milliards de dollars. Ce décrochage est principalement lié à l'effondrement du bitcoin, dont la valeur a chuté pour la de

SchiffGold.com 

January 30, 2026

Last week, Peter joined Daniel Horowitz on the CR Podcast to lay out a clear, sweeping case for why gold is not merely a safe haven but the logical outcome of decades of monetary mismanagement. He walks through his long-standing gold forecast, why the dollar's reserve role is unraveling, how bonds are signaling inflation, why tokenized gold beats Bitcoin, and why a collapse of today's paper-economy is unavoidable.

By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com

January 30, 2026

Maybe this arrangement isn't as stable and sustainable as the winners imagine.

Here's the US economy in a nutshell: corporate/state concentrations of financial, market and political power are the winners, and everyone outside these fortresses is losing ground. The Wall Street Journal is generally viewed as pro-business, and so it's particularly striking when the WSJ published this:

Il est plus facile pour la Chine et l'Europe de dire qu'il faut se débarrasser de leurs bons du Trésor américains, mais des ventes lentes et régulières nuiront davantage aux États-Unis que Trump ne l'admet. La bataille est visiblement engagée au plan financier avec ses conséquences sur l'ensemble mondialisé, et les observateurs supputent les chances de Trump et celles de ses adversaires dans les marchés, au sein de la classe dominante.

By George F. Smith 

January 29, 2026

One of history's greatest ironies is that gold detractors refer to the metal as the barbarous relic. In fact, the abandonment of gold has put civilization as we know it at risk of extinction.

The gold coin standard that had served Western economies so brilliantly throughout most of the nineteenth century hit a brick wall in 1914 and was never able to recover, or so the story goes.

By James Anthony
American Thinker 

January 29, 2026

In a so-called great inflation, politicians borrow and spend faster than usual by having crony bankers inflate the quantity of dollars faster than usual.

The added dollars start inflating asset prices, then start inflating producer-product prices, then start inflating consumer-product prices, and then start increasing wages. The purchasing power of wages recovers as fully as it can only after the political regime changes, reducing the uncertainty and the spending and inflation, and businessmen then resume their usual value-adding.

By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com

January 29, 2026

This is why a recession will catalyze a collapse of the credit-asset bubble-dependent economy down to its foundations.

Narrative control works by having a pat answer for every skepticism and every doubt. Boiled down, the dominant narrative holds that the Federal Reserve (central banking) and the central government have the tools to quickly reverse any dip in GDP, a.k.a.

By David Stockman
David Stockman's Contra Corner 

January 28, 2026

Hopefully, Elon Musk and his DOGE boys have learned a lesson the hard way. To wit, their earnest, dogged, sweeping and compelling demonstration early in 2025 that hundreds of billions can be cut from the Federal budget has already been shit-canned.

Almost in its entirety.

And by the usual suspects--the GOP appropriators on Capitol Hill-who are the biggest fake fiscal conservatives to ever come down the pike.

By Tom Woods 

January 28, 2026

As usual, ol' Woods is the sensible voice of moderation.

I have some friends who say: politics is a waste of time, it always amounts to a bunch of broken promises (or, quite often, when the promises are kept, they're the kind of promises you wish had been broken!), and it isn't going to solve our problems.

Work on your own little world, they say, provide for your family and your close circle, and that's the best you can hope for.

By Jeff Thomas
International Man

January 28, 2026

The above quote is from William Gouge, commenting on the Panic of 1819. The panic had been caused when the First Bank of the United States had first expanded the money supply dramatically by offering loans, then contracted the money supply by tightening its requirements for new loans, causing a crash.

This is a useful quote, as, in its simplicity, it states the very nature of crashes brought on by irresponsible banking practices.

By George F. Smith 

January 27, 2026

"Your money or your life" has been government's calling card for as long as government of the involuntary kind has existed. Of the choice between the two - money or government - there apparently is none. If we had no money we would be without a medium of exchange, the division of labor would collapse and civilization along with it.

As for government as it exists, its alleged necessity is drilled into our heads soon after we meet a public school teacher for the first time.

By Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us 

January 27, 2026

This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group

In early 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic hysteria I noted that the covid panic seemed to perfectly coincide with the Federal Reserve's acceleration of interest rates and and asset dumping. This trend, I argued, was a precursor to a Catch-22 scenario I have been warning about for some time.