On October 9, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, authorized a 20 billion-dollar currency swap with the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic. Economic instability in Argentina has been a consistent issue for decades, and proponents hope that the currency swap will bring stability to the Argentine peso while increasing investors’ confidence. Some call this currency swap a “bailout” to the Argentine government, whose president, Javier Milei, is a close ally of Trump. Is this currency swap a sign of continued and growing American interference in Latin America?

AmericasDivya GummuluruDecember 11, 2025Argentina, Milei, Trump, macroeconomics, Scott Bessent, elections, government, debt, peso

The Fall of a Giant: How Evergrande’s Liquidation is Impacting China’s Economy

China has experienced a spell of economic growth that is unique to global history, beginning in the late 1970s and continuing into the present day. For the past two decades, China’s real estate sector has cemented itself as a reliable driver of economic growth, but that saga has concluded with the fall of the Evergrande Group. Evergrande serves as an apt vessel to explore the collapse of a once dominant property sector, with this article seeking to analyze the causes of the group's fall as well as explain the greater impacts felt by China’s domestic economy.

AsiaBy Benjamin O'BrienApril 12, 2024economy, real estate crisis, china, debt, evergrande

Development, Deposits, And Debts: A Decade of BRI in Africa

In September 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping formally announced the Belt and Road Initiative, a sprawling infrastructure investment program intended to connect the world over land, air, and sea. A decade later, nearly every African nation has signed on, leading to a variety of results within the continent, ranging from shiny development projects to saddles of debt.