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

The shares of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), Switzerland's central bank, have almost doubled since July, despite there being no real ...

Satoshi Nakamoto kicked off his famous 2008 white pape r with the line: "Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusivel...

Do citizens benefit by owning money that is pegged to the nation's own unit of account rather than a foreign unit of account? Let...

A while back I was paying for gas at a nearby gas station when the clerk fumbled my credit card. When he bent down to pick it up he mome...

I recently stumbled on a new and innovative capital structure that, as far as I can tell, only exists in France. Since 2011, French bea...

George Selgin had an interesting post describing how the Fed appears to be breaking the law by paying too much interest to reserve-holde...

Arnold Kling is appalled by Lynn Stout, who accuses Wall Street of providing too much liquidity: Wall Street is providing far mor...

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