Trump vows tax cuts and debt relief

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News Date: December 16, 2023

President Trump made a campaign stop in Durham, N.H., on Saturday.
Donald Trump: "Here is my pledge to every New Hampshire family: I will never let the Trump tax cuts and they are the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country. I will never let them be taken away from you and with your vote in this election we will cut your taxes even further."
He also promised to take economic measures to get rid of the massive national debt.

A Monetary System as Good as Gold

The gold standard provides a better anchor for inflation expectations without an obvious cost in terms of lower output or higher unemployment.
The gold standard isn't perfect. No system is. But it has many virtues. A strong case can be made that it's the best of all feasible institutional alternatives. Lawrence White, puts it: The gold standard is still the gold standard among monetary systems.
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Philadelphia FED researchers suggest gold standard

Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia say switching to the gold standard could stabilize prices.
In their February working paper, researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia suggest that adopting a gold standard could lead to long-term price stability.
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Daniel Sanches argue that inflation and deflation would become temporary events in a hypothetical small open economy operating under the gold standard.
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Developing the BRICS currency

BRICS Group Works On A New Form Of Currency, looking At Basing Financial Reserves On A Basket Of Their Own Currencies.
State Duma Deputy Chairman Alexander Babakov said Thursday the BRICS alliance is actively engaged in developing its own currency and is set to present its proposals at the upcoming summit in August.
Putin suggested a new global reserve currency backed by hard assets and BRICS countries accumulated a great amount of gold.

BRICS currency officially announced

The Kremlin has announced the development of a blockchain-based payment system within the BRICS alliance.
Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov emphasized the importance of creating an independent BRICS payment system using modern tools like digital technologies and blockchain, aiming for convenience, cost-effectiveness, and non-political influence.
The focus for the year is to enhance BRICS's role in the international monetary system, with an emphasis on increasing settlements in national currencies and strengthening correspondent banking networks.
Work will continue on the Contingent Reserve Arrangement, particularly focusing on currencies other than the US dollar, as outlined in the 2023 Johannesburg Declaration.

Digital Yuan for Cross-Border payments launched

In Hong Kong, the Bank of China is leading the push for widespread cross-border usage of the digital yuan.
From experimental programs to cutting-edge applications, they have advanced.
One such application allows guests from the mainland to add more money to their Octopus cards using digital yuan.
In a different development, PetroChina successfully executed the first global trade of crude oil using e-CNY, the digital currency of the Chinese central bank, with the intention of extending its use worldwide.
As of June, transactions on China's highly advanced CBDC had totaled 1.8 trillion yuan.