Tag: Yuan

  • China’s Gold-Backed RMB: The Monetary Signal Heard Around the World

    China’s Gold-Backed RMB: The Monetary Signal Heard Around the World

    Beijing’s quiet gold strategy may be the opening move in a new reserve-currency era China may not need to formally declare a “gold-backed RMB” for the market to understand what is happening. For years, Beijing has been building the architecture of a post-dollar settlement system: more gold, more bilateral trade in yuan, more offshore RMB…

  • China’s Monetary Flood: Fake Paper, Real Assets

    China’s Monetary Flood: Fake Paper, Real Assets

    China is quietly executing the largest monetary expansion in its modern history—outside of the COVID emergency years—and the numbers are staggering. China’s M2 money supply has gone vertical, now sitting north of USD $48 trillion in equivalent terms. To put that into perspective, this is more than double the total U.S. M2 money supply. This…

  • China’s Cross-Border Digital RMB Payment System Challenges Dollar Dominance

    China’s Cross-Border Digital RMB Payment System Challenges Dollar Dominance

    On March 17, 2025, the People’s Bank of China unveiled a pivotal shift in global finance: the digital RMB cross-border settlement system is now fully connected to the ten ASEAN nations and six Middle Eastern countries. This move instantly expands digital yuan interoperability to cover nearly 38% of global trade, enabling participants to bypass the…

  • The Day Donald Trump Flunked Econ 101

    Market dislocations occur when financial markets, operating under stressful conditions, experience large widespread asset mispricing. Welcome to this week’s edition of “World Out Of Whack” where every Wednesday Capitalist Exploits take time out of their day to applaud insanity, laugh, poke fun at and present to you absurdity in global financial markets in all it’s glorious insanity.…