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Why monetarism is common sense

September 4, 2023 Comments are Disabled

In the latest episode of the New Money Review podcast I’m delighted to welcome Tim Congdon, an economist and leading advocate of monetarism. After a successful career in the City, […]

Why stablecoins disrupt the financial plumbing

October 6, 2022 Comments are Disabled

Two events in the last fifteen years have fundamentally altered the way the financial system operates—and neither was planned by global policymakers. The great crash of 2008 stopped banks from […]

Say goodbye to central bank control

October 28, 2019 0 comments

The US lawmakers who grilled Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg for six hours last week appeared to speak from a position of power. But the tough talk could disguise fundamental weakness. […]

Central banks dither over digital currencies

January 8, 2019 0 comments

The world’s central banks are proving reticent to introduce digital currencies, despite mounting market pressures for them to do so, according to a new report from the Bank for International […]

Freer thinking about money

April 7, 2018 1 comment

Judging by the volume and the heat of the headlines they generate, cryptocurrencies touch something deep in the human psyche. But the contradictory nature of those headlines may leave you […]