Dr. Ingrid Lieke is a monetary economist at the Luna Interplanetary Institute, where she has taught since 2098. She is the author of the first systematic supply-shock model for post-Permit Bill belt extraction, published in the UN Economic Bulletin in 2102, which projected a 30–45% contraction in Earth precious-metal and rare-earth pricing within three to five years of full licensed extraction — and which identified Oracle’s permit review as the single largest unmodeled variable capable of altering that timeline.
In 2110, Luna Interplanetary News interviewed her on roughly a decade of UNC. She offered a structural analysis of why the Soviet Union and China ceded their sovereign currencies for UNC — a control strategy of collapsing competition into a jointly-anchored instrument — and explained why the 2102 supply-shock prediction had been only half right: CAI’s deliberate filtering for off-world manufacturing (policy) and unmodeled system demand growth from Ganymede, Jovian water hauling, and belt expansion (demand) had absorbed the supply that was supposed to crash Earth markets. She flagged the unresolved question of whether the crash was prevented or merely postponed.