The U.S. $10,000 was available till Nixon nixed it in 1969 For the last few years the conversation about cash has been dominated by Ken...

Ken Rogoff has famously called for a ban on high denomination banknotes in order to help combat tax evasion and hurt criminals. But ra...

In my recent post for the Sound Money Project, I touched on the odd relationship between central banker and gangster. I want to focus a...

This continues a series of posts ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) I've been writing that tries to improve on Indian PM Narendra Modi's clumsy demone...

"America's only unwanted, unhonoured coin."  - John Willem on the silver trade dollar. The inspiration for this pos...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised Indians today by announcing that India's highest denomination notes, the 500 and 1000 rupee...

The US$5000 banknote, destroyed in 1969 along with the $10,000, $1000, and $500 notes With the publication of his new book The Curse of...

Dutch 10 guilder note. Holland and Lebanon are the only countries to have issued banknotes with bar codes. One of the interesting thing...