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Monday, October 26, 2020

How would Tony Soprano cope with a pandemic?

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When The Sopranos was running I never watched it, but during the pandemic I finally had some extra time to give it a try. It was excellent....
Thursday, October 22, 2020

A very very simple explanation of monetary policy

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Scale & weights | Aylmer, Quebec | Canadian Museum of History   This post is for my dad, who says he doesn't understand my writing b...
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Sunday, October 4, 2020

The ECB's digital euro: anonymous or not?

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  The European Central Bank (ECB) recently published a report that explores the idea of introducing a digital euro for use by the general p...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Adopting a clean gold standard

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  Last month I wrote an article about banning gold mining. It received plenty of feedback from different parts of the internet. Some loved ...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Different bitcoins different prices

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Not all bitcoins are the same. If someone steals 100 bitcoins from a cryptocurrency exchange and tries to sell them, they'll have to ...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

18 things about Tether stablecoins

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Before I start my list, a bit of introduction. Tether is a stablecoin . It happens to be the most popular stablecoin in the world. A ...
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Friday, August 21, 2020

The case for banning gold mining

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The Kalgoorlie Super Pit Mine in Australia Does the world need gold mining? Let's think about what a world without farming look ...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Bitcoin is an account, not a token

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When economists talk about payments, they often make a distinction between token-based and account-based payment systems. In a recent ...
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Friday, July 31, 2020

How the pandemic has clogged the global economy with paper currency

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The outbreak of Covid-19 has caused a global increase in the amount of cash in the economy. I think I've got a pretty neat explanatio...
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