The check used to buy Alaska ( source ) I recently read an FP article about the odd persistence of the cheque as a way to make payments...

No, I'm not talking about sound money in the sense of having a stable value. I'm talking about money that is sound because it can...

David Birch recently grumbled about people's sloppy use of the term legal tender , and I agree with him. As Birch points out, what m...

This post is about the dismantling of the rupee-zone between 1947-49, an historical event that is especially topical in light of two mode...

I wrote a bunch of posts on bitcoin between 2012-2015, but they tailed off a bit in late 2015 and 2016 as my attention turned to other su...

Americans and Canadians take for granted that fact that while a multiplicity of dollar brands circulates in our respective nations, a dol...

In campaigning for a departure from the Euro, both France's Marine Le Pen and Italy's Beppe Grillo,  make the process sound easy....

 Did Indian PM Narendra Modi get the idea for the recently-executed demonetization by watching old episodes of M*A*S*H, a 1970s hit TV sh...

Somalia has long played host to one of the world's strangest monetary phenomenon, a paper currency without a central bank. I explored...