# Reserve Reckoning

URL: /show/this-week-in-bitcoin/53/
> The Trump strategy is backfiring. Tariffs are the decoy. It’s a high-stakes reshuffle of global power, and Bitcoin may be the only asset seeing it clearly.

- Show: [This Week In Bitcoin](/show/this-week-in-bitcoin/)
- Episode: 53
- Date: 2025-04-09
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 01:03:57
- Audio: https://op3.dev/e/serve.podhome.fm/episode/f01a19c0-6f9d-4aef-9515-08dc15242149/63879829312678483022d3e1db-5571-4569-96b2-31b204b7244dv1.mp3





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**LINKS:**

* [US Dollar Could Lose Reserve Currency Status amid Tariffs, Experts Warn - Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tariffs-reserve-currency-status-2056854)
* [Trump, tariffs, and the dollar’s role as reserve currency - Janus Henderson Investors - corporate](https://www.janushenderson.com/corporate/article/trump-tariffs-and-the-dollars-role-as-reserve-currency/)
* [How Trump Could Dethrone the Dollar | CNAS](https://www.cnas.org/publications/commentary/how-trump-could-dethrone-the-dollar)
* [The nuclear option China could take in trade war with the US](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nuclear-option-china-could-trade-150000821.html)
* [CEA Chairman Steve Miran Hudson Institute Event Remarks – The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/cea-chairman-steve-miran-hudson-institute-event-remarks/)
* [Mortgage rates slingshot higher as tariff uncertainty roils markets](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/mortgage-rates-higher-tariff-uncertainty.html)
* [EU approves countermeasures against US tariffs starting next week](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/eu-approves-countermeasures-against-us-tariffs-starting-next-week/3532993)
* ['Let Donald Trump Run The Global Economy': Lutnick Defends Trump After Tariff Rollout Pummels Market - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awpyZBS8EBE)
* [China raises its retaliatory tariff on the US to 84%, vows to 'fight to the end' | The Times of Israel](https://www.timesofisrael.com/china-raises-its-retaliatory-tariff-on-the-us-to-84-vows-to-fight-to-the-end/)
* [All Banks Need to Succeed, Bessent Says - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oqJUeV32Rs)
* [U.S. Justice Department Ends Crypto Enforcement Unit and Regulation by Prosecution](https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/u-s-justice-department-ends-crypto-enforcement-unit-marking-significant-policy-shift/)
* [DOJ ends crypto enforcement team, shifts focus to terrorism and fraud](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/doj-ends-crypto-enforcement-team-shifts-focus-to-terrorism-and-fraud.html)
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