Getting up to monetary mischief

By Harcourt Romanticist [ source ] This post is dedicated to the protesters in …

Kyle Bass's big nickel bet

In 2011, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass reportedly bought $1 million worth of ni…

The credit theory of money

Over on the discussion board, Oliver and Antti suggest that I read two essay…

Gold regulators

While our modern monetary system certainly has plenty of detractors, one of its…

Two notions of fungibility

A few centuries ago, lack of fungibility used to be a big weakness of monetary …

Failed monetary technology

Archaic and ignored monetary technologies can be very interesting, especially w…

More fiatsplainin': let's play fiat-or-not

The (Great) Tower of Babel , 1563, Bruegel the Elder. "Therefore is the na…