Money Reimagined


Policy

Money Reimagined: Ending Money's Distance Trap

The internet made location irrelevant for information. Can it do the same for money?

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Policy

Money Reimagined: Defanging FAANG

With the internet more monopolized than ever, can Web 3.0 help produce an economy that's fairer to innovation and startups?

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Markets

Money Reimagined: From COVID Generation to Crypto Generation

Millennials and Generation Zers have many reasons to embrace crypto and reform the financial system in their own interests.

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Markets

Money Reimagined: DeFi-ing History

For clues to the future of decentralized finance, it's useful to look at waves of financial innovation past.

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Policy

Money Reimagined: How a Dangerous Idea Could Work

Modern Monetary Theory, which says deficits don't matter, has some truth to it. But putting it into practice would be risky without modern controls.

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Policy

Money Reimagined: Warnings From an Argentine Tragedy

Programmable money can protect against politicians debasing currencies to satisfy their own interests.

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Policy

Money Reimagined: Let’s Be Privacy Scolds

Technical solutions to protect financial privacy may not suffice. Stronger cultural norms around minding one’s own business are needed as well.

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Policy

Money Reimagined: This Isn't Good for Bitcoin

This week's Twitter hack won't make it easier for the crypto industry to win friends in Washington D.C., with possible implications for DeFi and more. How we talk about events like this matters.

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Markets

Money Reimagined: COVID-19's Crash Course in Exponential Math

Money requires a network effect, helped by the self-reinforcing idea that “everyone’s using it because everyone’s using it.”

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Finance

Money Reimagined: Bitcoin and Ethereum Are a DeFi Double Act

With bitcoin increasingly riding on Ethereum's rails, we're about to see greater complementarity between the top two blockchains.

Laurel and Hardy, "The Flying Deuces," 1939. (Wikipedia)