USD Stablecoins: Exporting US Toxic Sludge

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In this video, I discuss how expanding the USD stablecoin market could be used to increase demand for US Treasuries, in the wake of declining petrodollar and east Asian trade surplus recycling.

If so, this would be yet another example of the US dumping its toxic waste on developing nations.

What developing nations really need is BTC, but perhaps USD stablecoins could be the entry drug.

Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor.

Play around with the Aqua Wallet:
https://aquawallet.io/

Death Of The Petrodollar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOpKxg_usg8&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity

Petrodollars, Bitcoin, and the Fed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP2GsYc_meM&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity

China's holdings of US Treasuries:
https://en.macromicro.me/series/3357/us-treasury-bonds-major-foreign-holders-china

Belt and Road Initiative:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

Fed's holdings of US Treasuries:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREAST

National-debt interest now costs more than Medicare or defense:
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/2024051451/national-debt-interest-now-costs-more-than-medicare-or-defense

Toxic waste dumping in the Third World:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/030639688903000305

The Paradigm Policy Council:
https://policy.paradigm.xyz/policylab/council

Paul Ryan's article on stablecoins:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stablecoins-could-stave-off-a-us-debt-crisis-china-digital-currency-c491d717
https://www.aei.org/center-on-opportunity-and-social-mobility/crypto-could-stave-off-a-u-s-debt-crisis/

Tether holdings of US Treasuries:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tethers-100-bln-stokes-stablecoin-stability-concerns-2024-03-05/

USDC holdings of US Treasuries:
https://www.blackrock.com/cash/en-us/products/329365/

Largest foreign holders of US Treasuries:
https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/slt_table5.html

USD is a melting ice cube:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Purchasing-Power-of-the-US-Dollar.jpg

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