Will Bitcoin destroy the US dollar?

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Via the excellent gents at Nordea:

Could Bitcoin undermine the dollar and the United States? Perhaps. We do see reasons to mull the long-term value of the dollar – not primarily because of cryptocurrencies, but due the country’s economic-political choices and China’s continued rise…

Investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel recently wondered if not “Bitcoin should … be thought [of] in part as a Chinese financial weapon against the US”. To try to explain what this could mean, we turn to recent economic research on fiscal and monetary capacity.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.