I always like reading fund manager John Hussman because he writes very well, but I feel like he's dug himself into a bit of an intel...

Proponents of helicopter money have been getting a lot of press lately, but I don't really get what all the excitement is about. I li...

If you haven't heard,  protests are breaking out in Zimbabwe and unpaid civil servants are going on strike . This sort of thing ha...

I last wrote about Fedwire data two years ago. Since then, Fedwire has entered into a (nominal) recession. Is this something we need t...

Early map of Fedwire. Source: FRBNY The pace of Fedcoin sightings has been accelerating this year. If you're new to this blog, Fedc...

A Zimbabwean washes U.S. dollars, from NPR Planet Money Here's a surprising development. Zimbabwe, a dollarized nation, is on th...

Say the San Francisco Fed decided to secede from the Federal Reserve System or the Bank of Greece started to print its own euro notes wit...

Electrum coins [ source ] First proposed by economist Alfred Marshall in the late 19th century as an alternative metallic standard to t...

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