Earlier this month I criticized the architects of India's recent note demonetization for not using the traditional overstamping tec...

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Two things worth noting: As many of you know by now, the Swiss National Bank (SNB), Switzerland's central bank, just reduced th...

Most people don't realize that the central banks of Belgium, Japan, Greece, Switzerland, and South Africa are all publicly-traded. In...