The Dollar's Many Lives

What the de-dollarization debate gets wrong — and what it gets right

Apr 5 • Marieke Flament and Nicolas Colin

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March 2026

Stablecoins Were Just the Beginning

Sean Neville on stablecoins, the singleness of money, and building a financial institution for AI agents

Mar 29 • Marieke Flament and Nicolas Colin

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Petrodollars vs. Electroyuans

How the war in Iran severs the financial architecture of American power—and what China is building in its place

Mar 22 • Marieke Flament and Nicolas Colin

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Not Every Gold Token Is the Same

Kurt Hemecker on tokenizing gold, the lessons of Libra, and why privacy is not the same thing as anonymity

Mar 15 • Marieke Flament and Nicolas Colin

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Wide Open, Locked In

China is open-sourcing its intelligence, America is open-sourcing its currency, and the two are building a new version of the same old trap

Mar 8 • Marieke Flament and Nicolas Colin

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The Tokenized Money Stack

Four Powers, One Architecture, Zero Agreement

Mar 1 • Nicolas Colin and Marieke Flament

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February 2026

How Much Does a Higgendorfus Weigh?

Michael Green on gold, Bitcoin's fatal contradictions, and the problem of pricing things nobody understands

Feb 22 • Nicolas Colin, Marieke Flament, and Michael W. Green

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The Great Bifurcation

China bets on atoms while America doubles down on code

Feb 15 • Nicolas Colin and Marieke Flament

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The Octopus and the Crackhead

Sinéad O'Sullivan explains China's monetary system and the West's broken coordination

Feb 8 • Nicolas Colin, Marieke Flament, and Sinéad O’Sullivan

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Europe at a Crossroads

Stablecoins, CBDCs, and the future of money

Feb 1 • Marieke Flament

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January 2026

Sovereignty in a World of Dollars and Code

How money, code, and infrastructure create choke points that control nations’ economies

Jan 25 • Nicolas Colin and Marieke Flament

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The Energy Three-Body Solution

Bitcoin mining grows the energy system beyond current limits

Jan 18 • Nicolas Colin and Marieke Flament

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