Central bank settlement systems are the the tectonic plates of the payment system: they are vitally important to our lives, but we never see...

I often encounter memes claiming that fiat money is to blame for all sorts of government evils. Here is one example from Kraken bitcoin stra...

Ok, another Sweden post. I keep returning to Sweden because no country has gone further down the road to being cash-free. Since all of us se...

I recently wrote two posts for the Sound Money Project about Swedish monetary innovation. The first is about an effort by the Swedish cen...

50 SEK banknote issued by the Riksbank in 1960 "Do we need an eKrona?" asks Stefan Ingves, the Governor of the Riksbank, Swe...

 We are more than thirty days into Narendra Modi's demonetization campaign, and while many of the commentators I follow say that it i...

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