One country, two monetary systems
I often write about odd monetary phenomena on this blog. Here's a new conte…
Showing posts with label unit of account. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unit of account. Show all posts
A fifty-year history of Facebook's Libra
Last week, we finally got some information about what Libra's currency bask…
Billion Prices Project
fintech
Libra
medium of exchange
SDR
sticky prices
unit of account
William Stanley Jevons
Esperanto, money's interval of certainty, and how this applies to Facebook's Libra
Facebook recently announced a new cryptocurrency, Libra. I had earlier specula…
cash
ghost money
medium of exchange
Robert Shiller
Unidad de Fomento
unit of account
William Stanley Jevons
The Haitian dollar
Haiti is home to a strange monetary phenomenon. Shopkeepers and merchants set p…
bitcoin
gold
medium of exchange
Nick Rowe
stock market and equities
store of value
unit of account
William Stanley Jevons
Store of value
LSD tabs like these ones have an incredibly high value-to-weight ratio When bit…
The ubiquitous Spanish dollar—a photo essay
"The head of a fool on the neck of an ass." That's how Londoners …
Chain splits under a Bitcoin monetary standard
The recent bitcoin chain split got me thinking again about bitcoin-as-money, sp…
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