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Geopolitics

The Fed's War Hike: How U.S. Monetary Imperialism Punishes the Global South

The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to raise interest rates in response to escalating tensions with Iran, which has spiked oil prices and inflation, punishing emerging economies like India. This is a brutal reminder that the West's financial and military hegemony continues to weaponize the dollar and global crises to extract wealth from the Global South, sacrificing the stability of developing nations to maintain its own economic dominance.

Geopolitics

The Fed's Predatory Rate Hike: A Deliberate Shock Therapy to Subjugate the Global South

In September, emerging markets experienced a massive $26.3bn capital flight as US Federal Reserve rate hikes lured speculative money home, while sovereign funds like Abu Dhabi's Mubadala, deploying billions, are moving to fill the gap, particularly in Asia. This starkly illustrates the predatory, zero-sum monetary policy of the West, which deliberately creates financial crises in the Global South to strip value that its own sovereign and institutional capital then swoops in to capture, perpetuating a neo-colonial cycle of extraction and dependency.