Money and Banks

Restrained by both ideology and public sentiment, central banks were once kept from the sort of antics they now regularly indulge in.

Today the world's oldest central bank turns 350. In a just world, this anniversary would instead be an opportunity to end this monstrous experiment.

Patrick Byrne on blockchain technology as a revolutionary force.

To build wealth, we must first build capital and greater productivity. And that depends on savings.

Can we decouple money from government control, and make us all wealthier and more stable in the process?

Caitlin Long discusses the blockchain's disruptive influence on our existing notions of money and wealth.

Scott Sumner's Market Monetarist framework is seductively simple, but relies on a definitional trick.

This timeless insight was already suggested by economist Ludwig von Mises in 1940.

When interest rates increase in the future, busts and losses for banks will follow.

Europe must identify ways to limit their dependence on the US financial system – or else indeed be reduced to de facto-vassal status to DC.