debasement
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This handful of factors is helping develop momentum for the dollar, eliminate debasement risks and sustain the dollar’s advance in the near term.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 26, 2026
Meanwhile, the Fed’s hawkish stance “appears to have derailed the debasement trade, where assets such as gold were favored over currencies vulnerable to inflation, fiscal and monetary excess.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026
The JPMorgan team argues that this is “a broader retreat from the debasement trade” that probably will keep going.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, the JPMorgan strategist who identified the debasement trade in financial markets in October, says investors seemed to have moved on from the strategy.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
When other entrepreneurs created jukeboxes by arranging for a phonograph to play popular music at the drop of a coin, Edison objected to this debasement, which apparently detracted from serious office use of his invention.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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