Donald Trump and Trumpism may not be over yet. The real battles with riot entrepreneurs may still lie ahead. Trump is likely to survive as a political icon.

It is questionable whether bitcoin will break the dominance of the U.S. dollar, as the Financial Times provocatively asked this week.

The RCEP is not an introduction to a new block formation. However, the RCEP is an unmistakable sign of an economic shift of weight from the North Atlantic to the Asia-Pacific region.

The renminbi cannot compete with the dollar and the euro in international payment transactions. The introduction of a digital renminbi should change this.

Political and social polarization in the United States has now progressed so far that democratic institutions have been damaged.

Central bank independence can be used for objectives that contradict the original mandate. The desired objectivity is replaced by a bequest of monetary policy.