Money


Opinion

Crypto Is (and Isn’t) Money

There is an overemphasis on crypto's use as a store-of-value, Cosmos co-founder Ethan Buchman argues.

a hundred dollar bill

Policy

Reinvent Money to Reward Virtue

Bitcoin wrested control of money from the state. Ethereum and other technologies will return it to the heterogeneous communities that dot the globe, write Matthew Prewitt and Steven McKie.

Allegorical figures representing virtue and abundance, 1760

Markets

A (Not Quite) Complete History of Money, Feat. Planet Money’s Jacob Goldstein

One of the hosts of NPR’s legendary “Planet Money” takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the key moments of money history in the last 1,000 years.

Breakdown Jacob Goldstein Planet Money 11-3-20

Markets

Bitcoin Only Matters Because the Game Is Rigged

The reason bitcoin is likely to be important to the future isn't about the technology, it's about the modern world where money is abused for the benefit of the few and to the detriment of the many.

(Macau Photo Agency / Unsplash)

Policy

The American Empire Is in Decline. Time for a New Economic System

From debt to inequality, the U.S. economy looks like a 1930s disaster waiting to happen. No wonder gold-bugs and Bitcoiners are feeling vindicated.

Empires are able to print their own money until trust in the currency falls, says Sokolin. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Markets

Why Money Is Losing Its Meaning, Feat. Jared Dillian

As government work to stimulate economies on lockdown, even "normies" are starting question limitless money printing.

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