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Russia-Ukraine One Year Later
January 19, 2022
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David R. Kotok
Chairman & Chief Investment Officer
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Last year’s Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered a quickly organized and virtual conference series titled Ukraine: What’s Next? In 2023, we’ve had time to organize an extraordinary lineup for a four-part blockbuster series of presentations offered worldwide virtually and in-person in Sarasota, Florida.
The series title for the 2023 GIC conference series is Ukraine: One Year Later. While Russia’s war of conquest against Ukraine grinds on as an expanding regional shooting war, that shooting war is paired with a worldwide financial and economic sanctions and payments war. The GIC conference series is designed to blend military and defense with economics and finance.
The Global Interdependence Center, the University of South Florida, and multiple partners will offer a vital update on the war and its varied impacts. Cumberland is proud to be one of the principal sponsors of this event and to be represented among the presenters. Here’s information about the series, how to register for each session, who are some of the confirmed speakers and what are the topics. This information is confirmed and drawn from the GIC website (https://www.interdependence.org/events). Additional speakers are invited but not yet confirmed so they do not appear on the list.
Series Description
Ukraine: One Year Later is a four-part series examining the impact of the war in Ukraine, hosted in partnership with the University of South Florida Sarasota Manatee and the Florida West Coast Chapter of the Air and Space Forces Association. This hybrid series will take place virtually and in-person between February and April, 2023, and cover themes such as the military-geopolitical outlook, the financial-economic arena, and implications with regard to agriculture, cybersecurity, and world trade.
Ukraine: One Year Later – Session I: Monetary Policy and Market Implications
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2023 – Friday, February 17, 2023
Location: In-person, Selby Auditorium at the University of South Florida Sarasota – Manatee, and virtually via Zoom worldwide.
Agenda, speakers, and registration: https://www.interdependence.org/events/browse/ukraine-one-year-later-session-i/
Ukraine: One Year Later – Session II: The Tools of War and the Effects of War on Health (All-Virtual Event)
Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023
Location: Virtual only.
Agenda, speakers, and registration: https://www.interdependence.org/events/browse/ukraine-one-year-later-session-ii/
Ukraine: One Year Later – Session III: Food, Famine, and Energy, plus the Effects of the War on Central Bank Policy and Financial Markets
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023 – Friday, March 24, 2023
Location: In-person, Selby Auditorium at the University of South Florida Sarasota – Manatee, and virtually via Zoom worldwide.
Agenda, speakers, and registration: https://www.interdependence.org/events/browse/ukraine-one-year-later-session-iii/
Ukraine: One Year Later – Session IV: Cryptocurrency and an Outlook on Asia
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023 – Friday, April 21, 2023
Location: In-person, Selby Auditorium at the University of South Florida Sarasota – Manatee, and virtually via Zoom worldwide.
Agenda, speakers, and registration: https://www.interdependence.org/events/browse/ukraine-one-year-later-session-iv/
Please join us. Please share this email with anyone who may be interested in this series are any part of it.
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Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D.
Mon Jan 9, 2023
In a recent Wall Street Journal commentary (“Crypto Is Money Without a Purpose,” Dec. 19, 2022), Todd H. Baker argues that crypto activities mimic finance but are really only gambling in disguise. As in casino gambling, where currency is exchanged for chips that are wagered then, at the end of a gambling session, redeemed for currency with a one-to-one exchange rate.
To engage in crypto finance, the customer purchases crypto tokens with currency or transfers funds from a bank account and then hopes for an increase in the price of the tokens. In relatively few situations are tokens exchanged for goods or services; otherwise, to realize true gains, the holder of tokens must convert them back to currency or a bank deposit. Baker argues that purchasing high-risk tokens is gambling that is highly leveraged and opaque. Those who doubt that characterization need only to look at the revelations behind the Bankman-Fried FTX fiasco as it unwinds and we learn more and more about the leverage, self-dealing, opaque transactions among affiliates, and the allegedly criminal activities that no one had a clue about.
Continued: https://www.cumber.com/market-commentary/crypto-hate-it-it-regulate-it
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