Moneyness
Thursday, December 31, 2020

The unbanked, the post office, and fintech in the 1880s

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"A large population of people are excluded from the financial system because they don't have bank accounts. Fintechs compete to con...
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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Dolphin Safe Tuna and Fair Trade bank accounts?

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The Royal Bank, Canada's largest bank, says that it won’t lend to clients that get more than 60% of their revenue from thermal coal or ...
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Sunday, December 6, 2020

Judy Shelton at the Bank of Canada? No thanks

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How would I feel if Judy Shelton was a candidate for Governor of the Bank of Canada? Here are my thoughts. A bit of background first. Judy ...
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Monday, November 23, 2020

Stablecoins as a route into Venezuela?

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Over the last decade, few nations have experienced as much monetary and payments chaos as Venezuela has. Fans of bitcoin, Dash, and other cr...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Programmable money isn't new, we've had it for ages

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I often hear that modern money just isn't up to snuff because it isn't programmable. That's why we need Ethereum, stablecoins, a...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Why are so many Americans content to be unbanked?

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Source Here's a surprising statistic: 5.4% of American households didn't have a bank account in 2019. That's 7.1 million househo...
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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...
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