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.