Author: Luis Roback

About Financial Cryptarch Financial Cryptarch is the Founder of Criptocurrencie and a finance professional with over 15 years of experience in Accounting and Corporate Finance. Holding a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and an MBA in Corporate Finance, he focuses on cryptocurrencies, macroeconomics, global finance, and international geopolitics, helping readers understand the forces shaping money, markets, and economic power.
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The New Global Financial System: How Bitcoin, Geopolitics, Inflation, Central Banks, and Wealth Preservation Are Reshaping the Future

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Introduction

For decades, economists, investors, and policymakers treated inflation, geopolitics, monetary policy, and asset markets as separate disciplines. Textbooks compartmentalized them. Financial media covered them in separate sections. But the events of the past decade — from the 2008 financial crisis and unprecedented quantitative easing, to the COVID-19 monetary expansion, the Russia-Ukraine war, surging global debt, and Bitcoin’s institutionalization — have made one thing undeniably clear: everything is connected. read more

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A cinematic 3D illustration of the Federal Reserve building with a glowing digital globe and financial charts, symbolizing its control over global markets.

What Is the Federal Reserve and Why Does It Control Global Markets?

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Introduction

Few institutions wield more influence over the global economy than the Federal Reserve. When the Fed raises interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, mortgage payments rise in São Paulo, bond yields shift in Tokyo, and Bitcoin prices react within hours. This is not coincidence — it is the architecture of the modern international monetary system at work.

Founded in 1913 following a series of devastating banking panics, the Federal Reserve was designed to stabilize the U.S. financial system. Over a century later, it has evolved into something far more consequential: the de facto central bank of the world. According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), approximately 88% of all global foreign exchange transactions involve the U.S. dollar on at least one side. That single statistic explains why the Fed’s decisions are the most closely watched in finance. read more

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