Why is the paper euro shrinking? Are we at peak cash ?  To begin with, here is the data, charted:  As the orange line shows, Europe is exper...

Ever since the coronavirus hit, the Bank of Canada's balance sheet has been exploding. In late February its assets measured just $118 bi...

I was disappointed to see that First Trust Bank, a commercial bank based in Northern Ireland, will stop issuing its own brand of banknotes....

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...

Narayana Kocherlakota, formerly the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and now a prolific economics blogger, penned a rece...

Remember all the hoopla about Japanese buying safety deposit boxes to hold cash in response to the Bank of Japan's decision to set ...

Imagine waking up in the morning and checking the hockey scores, news, the weather, and how much the central bank has adjusted the gold ...

Have Swiss interest rates fallen so low that the public is finally bolting into cash? The Wall Street Journal and Zero Hedge  think so....

Last week I asked whether the Federal Reserve could get rid of the $100 bill. This week let's discuss whether it should get rid of t...

Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank Negative interests rates are the shiny new thing that everyon...