by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 29, 2025 | Africa, Banks, Bitcoin, Blog Articles, CBDCs, Crypto, Finance, Inflation, Monetary System, Sanctions, Technology
It used to be that if you lived in a remote village in Africa, or for that matter, Southeast Asia, Latin America, or even behind the Berlin Wall in Eastern Europe, you had desire and need for U.S. dollars, but no easy way to access them. You couldn’t readily exchange...
by Michael Wilkerson | Feb 22, 2025 | Banks, Bitcoin, Blog Articles, BRICS, CBDCs, China, Crypto, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Tariffs, Trump Administration
Precious metals prices are on the move 2025 has started off with a golden hue. Gold and silver have been among the best performing asset classes in 2025, up 12% and 14%, respectively, year-to-date. Over the past two months, these precious metals have outperformed...
by Michael Wilkerson | Dec 29, 2024 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, CBDCs, China, Crypto, Economy, Elections, Finance, Geopolitics, Iran, Monetary System, Russia, Sanctions, Technology, Trump Administration, USA
When then Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump pivoted in 2024 from crypto-skeptic to arch crypto-advocate, he successfully won over an industry of potential voters that, for the most part, hadn’t previously been active in politics or, in many cases, even voted at...
by Michael Wilkerson | Oct 13, 2024 | Africa, Blog Articles, BRICS, CBDCs, China, Economy, Finance, Geopolitics, Monetary System, Russia, Sanctions, USA
Will the gold-backed UNIT Challenge U.S. Dollar Dominance? Later this month, Russia will host the sixteenth BRICS Summit, bringing together its member countries for Head of State level discussions on trade, monetary policy, security, and other matters. This capstone...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jul 29, 2024 | Banks, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, CBDCs, Crypto, Finance, Monetary System, Policy, Politics, USA
Image credit: The Washington Post | The Washington Post | Getty Images How the world turns. It was just over three years ago that former U.S. President Donald J. Trump called Bitcoin a scam and a threat to the U.S. dollar’s position as the world reserve currency. As...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jun 2, 2024 | Blog Articles, CBDCs, Crypto, Elections, Finance, Monetary System, Policy, Politics, Technology, USA
I had opportunity to participate last week in a private round table at Consensus 2024, the digital assets and blockchain technology conference, on the tension between CBDCs (central bank-issued digital currencies) and privacy. Under the U.S. Constitution, Americans...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 12, 2024 | Banks, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, CBDCs, Crypto, Economy, Finance, Monetary System, Politics, USA
There have been many legitimate concerns raised about the potential tyranny and abuses that would result from the U.S. government’s issuance of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). CBDCs have been rightly criticized as providing governments with a nearly perfect...
by Michael Wilkerson | Oct 30, 2023 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, CBDCs, Crypto, Finance, Inflation, Politics, USA, War
Bitcoin (BTC) hit its all-time high of over $65,000 two years ago in November 2021. Since then, it has been a bloodbath for the entire cryptocurrency market, and Bitcoin has not been spared. Most of the so called “alt-coins” trying to ride the crypto wave led by...
by Michael Wilkerson | Oct 2, 2023 | Banks, Blog Articles, CBDCs, Crypto, Finance, Technology
Sam Bankman-Fried, commonly known as SBF, goes on trial later this week for his role as founder and CEO in the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, in what prosecutors allege was a $40 billion fraud. Some sympathetic observers, such as Michael Lewis, the author of The Big...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jul 26, 2023 | Banks, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, CBDCs, Crypto, Finance, Politics, USA
The war on conservatives and traditional values has expanded to a new and threatening front. Commercial banks, which should be narrowly focused on the business of protecting your money and providing credit, have instead entered the cultural wars. Banks have turned to...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jun 7, 2023 | Banks, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, CBDCs, Crypto, Finance, Politics, Technology, USA
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just filed complaints in Federal court against two of world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance and Coinbase. Binance, the largest exchange globally with several billion dollars of daily transaction volume,...
by Michael Wilkerson | Apr 8, 2023 | Banks, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, CBDCs, Finance, Politics, Technology, USA
On Sunday March 5, 1933, just one day after his inauguration, newly ensconced U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared a banking “holiday,” closing all U.S. banks for four days. By the time the first banks began to reopen, financial regulators had scoured the...
by Michael Wilkerson | Feb 14, 2023 | Armed Forces, Banks, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, CBDCs, Covid-19, Crypto, Finance, Inflation, Monetary System, Politics, USA
Like many governments around the world, the Biden administration seems determined to limit Americans’ monetary freedom by taxing it away, and by manipulating and controlling how they store and spend their money. Here are a few examples of how this is happening. Let’s...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jan 14, 2023 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, CBDCs, China, Crypto, Finance, Inflation, Politics, Sanctions, Stormwall Book, USA, Why America Matters Book
We’re at a turning point in history. This could be said of many things, but it is certainly true of the modern monetary system. Like most transitions in life and in history, the monetary system’s transformation is occurring slowly, then suddenly, in that the changes...
by Michael Wilkerson | Aug 28, 2022 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, CBDCs, Crypto, Finance, Inflation, Politics, Stormwall Book, USA, Why America Matters Book
Following the drubbing of the crypto markets in June 2022, with Bitcoin and Ethereum prices down nearly 75 percent and 82 percent, respectively, from their all-time highs, many market observers predicted the early death of the crypto industry. Crypto detractors,...