Money and Banks

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.

We're in a boom period, but housing construction is scant — which is making housing less affordable.

Contrary to what the Keynesians will say, a stronger yen could be good for Japan. 

Money is not neutral, and changes in the money supply set into motion a variety of unpredictable movements. 

Argentina's president Mauricio Macri has been as bad as, if not worse than, his left-wing populist predecessor on the inflation front.