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Founder/CEO of Pacemaker and former Central Banker (New York Fed) and coinventor of Triparty repo

Kathleen Tyson

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Economic stagnation, political polarisation, and growing geopolitical competition have fuelled claims that the West is entering an era of irreversible decline. The old transatlantic alliance is fraying as the US continues to take unilateral action, while Europe adopts a language of greater strategic autonomy. Our panel examines whether these are signs of terminal decay, or simply the growing pains of a changing global order?

Is the West in accelerating decline?

Tokenised treasuries, private credit and real estate are heading onchain. But does moving real-world assets to blockchain fix financial opacity, or just speed up the same old risks on faster rails? Infrastructure founders and policymakers debate whether tokenisation represents genuine reform or Wall Street with a new coat of paint.

Are we just tokenising a broken system?

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants lower interest rates, but the bond market has so far refused to cooperate. This talk explores the growing tension between Washington’s fiscal ambitions and the investors who ultimately determine the cost of U.S. borrowing. Can Bessent beat the bond markets, or will rising yields, mounting debt and inflation force a reckoning? And, if he loses, what does that mean for the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency?

Kathleen Tyson

Founder/CEO of Pacemaker and former Central Banker (New York Fed) and coinventor of Triparty repo

Pacemaker

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