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Parallel Currencies: More Poison than Panacea

This post was written more than six years ago, just before the French Presidential elections of 2017, but it was never published. Still…

9 min readMay 17, 2023

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The burden of proof lies with the proof of the burden

At his semi-annual congressional testimony in early March, Fed Chair Jay Powell was asked by Ohio Senator J.D. Vance (J.D.) if the role of…

14 min readApr 5, 2023

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Savers? What are we? Germans?

“What about the savers?” a plaintive cry goes out every time the Fed lowers interest rates or reassures anxious markets that rates will…

4 min readSep 30, 2021

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America’s Back, But Missing From Its Backyard

“America’s back,” Joe Biden said recently at his first G7 meeting, seeking to reassure allies and to recruit them as partners in the US…

5 min readAug 11, 2021

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America’s Back, But Missing From Its Backyard

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How I learned to stop worrying and (mostly)love the Euro.

This piece goes over many things I’ve said before in other places, tweets or threads, but I thought it worth doing for a couple of reasons…

9 min readMay 22, 2021

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Highway to the Target Zone

Or The Case for International Currency Cooperation

7 min readMar 25, 2021

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The Market Dollar & The IMFS Dollar

With a lot of recent talk about the USD system, and seeming interconnections between US current account deficits, the world’s demand for…

5 min readSep 16, 2020

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The Market Dollar & The IMFS Dollar

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Is the US Ripe for Devolution?

Longtime followers of my Twitter career and my blog are undoubtedly familiar with my calls for greater devolution in the US,. See here…

5 min readAug 10, 2020

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Karthik Sankaran

Karthik Sankaran

Formerly many things — but posts here will most likely be about history, politics, or global macro markets. Dad Jokes a specialty but those are on Twitter.

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