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Digital currency is a significant threat to the dominance of the stock market

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Feb

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Digital currency is a significant threat to the dominance of the stock market

BY:Alegandro PEJOURNAL - The dollar has been a global reserve currency for 100 years, but many people have been buying bitcoins since March, fearing that the US Federal Reserve-led central banks will devalue their currencies. Morgan Stanley, chief executive officer of Global Investment Management Strategy, is the author of Ten Laws of Successful Nations. When it spread, the US dollar was as strong as ever. Despite talk of faltering US supremacy, the dollar as an intermediary in international trade, another anchor for other countries to value their currencies, and the “reserve currency” of most central banks as the dominant savings.…

Turkey-NATO Alliance Under Threat

PEJOURNAL - The Turkish lira has hit a record low against the dollar amid investor anxiety about the Turkish economy, hit by coronavirus and friction with NATO allies. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has riled France and the US among others. Analysts attribute the weakening to concern about Turkish inflation and the central bank's refusal to raise its key interest rate. A rate rise could dampen inflation and encourage investors to buy lira. It was the beheading of a school teacher in Paris that sparked the latest war of words. Samuel Paty was murdered by a Chechen extremist, having shown a…

Pentagon Reportedly Warned Senior Officials Involved in Gen. Soleimani Assassination of Threat on US Soil

PEJOURNAL - The US Department of Defense reportedly issued threat warnings last month to several senior staff members who were involved in the January 3 assassination of Iranian Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani that they faced an active threat against them while on US soil, five senior officials told NBC News. According to the report, the threat remains active, but the officials did not note a definitive link between the threat and the January 3 drone strike outside Baghdad International Airport that killed the Iranian commander and several senior Iraqi military leaders. According to NBC, the briefing at…