The gold standard is a classic monetary idea whose time came – and went – a long time ago.
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Good As Gold? Not Exactly
Tag Archives: Currency
What Hyperinflation Looks Like, In Color
Images of nearly worthless cash piled next to the goods it can buy recall Weimar Germany, but come from today’s Venezuela.
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Bitcoin = Tulips
Bitcoin is a relatively new invention, but the mania surrounding the cryptocurrency has a long and generally sad history.
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The Wild West Of Initial Coin Offerings
‘Initial coin offerings’ seek to get around the securities rules that apply to IPOs. But those rules exist for good reason.
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Striking A Blow At King Cash
Governments claim monopoly power to issue money, and now they want to make sure they can see how and where it gets used.
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The Yuan Stops Over There
Just months after being named a reserve currency, China’s yuan is being restricted as if to prove that designation was premature.
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Sharing Losses In A Bitcoin Heist
A major bitcoin exchange is making all its customers share the pain after some accounts were hacked.
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Persuaded By What I Didn’t Hear
Puerto Rico doesn’t need bankruptcy; it needs independence.
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Treasury Feels The Hamilton Heat
As Alexander Hamilton enjoys his greatest acclaim in more than two centuries, his modern-day successor squirms.
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Should You ‘Like’ Libra?
Facebook’s new Libra cryptocurrency may not be right for everybody, but not everybody has better options.
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