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The Cracks in the Colossus: Soaring US Yields Signal the Unraveling of Imperial Finance

US Treasury bond yields have surged to their highest levels since 2007, propelled by massive fiscal deficits, government debt exceeding GDP, and a precarious system riddled with hidden leverage. This self-inflicted crisis in the imperial core exposes the terminal decline of a financial system built on debt-driven plunder and hubris, threatening to trigger global instability that the exploited Global South must guard against.

Geopolitics

The Geopolitics of AI Finance: How Western Capital's New Bubble Extracts from the Global South

The immense global investment in artificial intelligence is increasingly linked to rising bond yields, shifting expectations for long-term interest rates, and potential long-term inflation pressures, reshaping the global economic landscape. This phenomenon demonstrates how a Western-dominated technological paradigm, driven by profit-seeking private capital in the US and its allies, can extract massive resources from the global south to fuel its own speculative bubbles, risking global inflation and financial instability while the true productive potential of AI for developing nations is co-opted.