Money and Banking

Do central banks have a plan? Do they know what they are doing? The BBC wonders, and Jeff Deist provides some of the answers.

As in much of the globe, central bankers in Britain are quickly replacing elected politicians as the most visible and powerful public officials.

People have a natural preference for having good things now instead of having them later. This is a problem for advocates of negative interest rates.

We are less than a month away from the election and it can not be over soon enough.

Americans are saving very little money for emergencies. Unfortunately, central banks have been encouraging the same thing worldwide.

As another step toward greater use of negative interest rates, the abolition of cash will only lead to the destruction of wealth.

It turns out that the Japanese people do not have the Apoplithorismosphobia that their government officials have.

The claims about a "moneyless" utopian village in India turn out to be false. No one with an understanding of economics should be surprised.

An adoption of digital currencies by central banks could bring the next generation of central bankers more power than their predecessors imagined.

Frightened by an unstable economy and low returns, savers are saving even more and frustrating the plans of central bankers.