The Green Party is issuing a cautionary statement regarding a proposal ostensibly to finance a just and sustainable transition. Three authors have proposed a financing scheme for a Green International ...

Circle gets Fed backstop facilities, discount-window access, FDIC insurance on USDC (or something functionally equivalent) ...

Representatives of Banque de France, the French central bank, have embraced the global perspective on the central bank digital currency (CBDC) discussion, touting it as the foundation of a new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A few years ago I wrote a piece, for Public Discourse, called “Montesquieu and the Monetary System.” It discussed our having fiat ...

In all these cases, gold did well as an alternative money to paper/debt money. Over long periods of time, it was the money ...

This is an opinion editorial by Taimur Ahmad, a graduate student at Stanford University, focusing on energy, environmental policy and international politics. Author’s note: This is the first part of a ...

Zach Witkoff has positioned World Liberty Financial as a participant in this emerging global system rather than an observer ...

The quiet resurgence of the goldbugs, those who want to peg the value of the U.S. dollar to the price of gold, is emblematic of the fact that some lawmakers do not understand how the monetary system ...

Among the first objections that arise for anyone who has just learned about Bitcoin is “this is too complicated to understand.” And it’s true; private keys, block times, difficulty adjustments, UTXOs, ...

Crypto’s structural flaws make it an unsuitable basis for a monetary system, according to the Bank for International settlements (BIS). Instead, monetary systems could be built around central bank ...