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Privacy, Power, Fiscal Policy, the Poor: Four Reasons to Worry about CBDCs

12/02/2020 Mises Wire Wolf von Laer

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. It has become clear by now that central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, will be in our future and the technology will fundamentally change...

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Privacy, Power, Fiscal Policy, the Poor: Four Reasons to Worry about CBDCs

12/02/2020 Wolf von Laer

Central bank digital currencies need to be centralized and manipulable to some extent in order to use them to implement monetary policy, which is central bankers' goal. This characteristic makes them a very risky proposition.

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