Financial safety

US Intelligence Views Cryptocurrencies as a Threat to the Dollar

The United States intelligence is hiring a researcher to evaluate risks to dollar. The job involves modeling likely scenarios in which dollar could lose its worldwide dominance.

The academic should be able to document how and why dollar could lose its supremacy, while providing possible solutions to such hypothetical events.

The position was advertised by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The chosen candidate will be given the job of assessing risks to the dollar’s position as world reserve currency, specifically from cryptos, and the emergence of new economies such as India and China.

The last date for applying to the position is February 28. The position comes under the intelligence community (IC) postdoctoral research fellowship program backed by the ODNI.

Joseph Maguire, the Director of National Intelligence, reports to the POTUS, Homeland Security Council and the National Security Council on all matters associated with national security.