The Bank of England governor gets it wrong about a possible return to ‘Wild West’ banking, according to George Selgin, a professor of economics at the University of Georgia. Last […]
Long-vilified for their environmental footprint, cryptocurrencies like bitcoin offer a potential solution to the growing problem of excess renewable energy. Blackouts in the golden state In the midst of last […]
Central banks around the world are rushing to prepare digital replacements for their notes and coins. But the most critical question of all regarding state digital money remains unresolved. Will […]
Bitcoin is a live, multi-billion-dollar experiment involving tens of millions of willing participants. It’s also a case study in game theory, the field of science that studies the interactions between […]
Asset management giant Vanguard is making a push into distributed ledger technology and blockchain. The firm’s head of fintech strategies, Warren Pennington, recently spoke to New Money Review editor Paul […]
The slump in the US dollar is beginning to accelerate. The gold price leapt to a new all-time high in early trading on Monday 27 July, with silver and bitcoin […]
Wednesday’s dramatic Twitter hack has led to a spat between a firm of cryptocurrency investigators and a provider of bitcoin privacy software. More than a fifth of the funds raised […]
A European data market will help break the grip of large digital platforms like Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon, says Michael Salmony, our guest on the latest New Money Review […]
The global financial markets are now increasingly dependent on a single currency, the US dollar, and a single source of liquidity—the US central bank. That’s the conclusion drawn by the […]
When you place money on deposit you expect to get it back. Many people say that’s the original concept of banking: you pass your funds across a desk into safe […]