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Financial center
Deep capital markets and reserve-currency roles that let a state finance deficits and sanction others.
How to read coverage
Follow rates, dollar liquidity, and sanctions architecture — finance is force multipliers for superpowers.
OAP frame
Financial centrality delays fiscal day of reckoning but increases global contagion risk when policy shifts.
What to watch
- Fed policy
- Treasury sanctions
- debt ceiling politics
Example countries