Is the strength of U.S. sanctions due to U.S. dollar hegemony?

I often hear the idea that the U.S. dollar is the means by which the U.S. imple…

Norbert's gambit

I executed one of the oddest financial transactions of my life earlier this wee…

C-day and military money

Did Indian PM Narendra Modi get the idea for the recently-executed demonetizat…

Bringing back the Somali shilling

Somalia has long played host to one of the world's strangest monetary pheno…

Italian exit and the problem of lira shortages

The topic of euro breakup has slowly been trickling back in the news, especiall…

A 21st century U.S. trade dollar

"America's only unwanted, unhonoured coin."  - John Willem on the…