What happens when a central bank splits in two? joni Juni 02, 2016 Add Comment Bank of Greece, counterfeiting, fungibility, medium of account Edit Say the San Francisco Fed decided to secede from the Federal Reserve System or the Bank of Greece started to print its own euro notes withou... Read More
Greece and IMF SDRs—Gold Next? joni Mei 14, 2015 Add Comment Bank of Greece, gold, IMF, SDR, Yanis Varoufakis Edit The FT makes a hullabaloo out of Greece using special drawing rights (SDR) to pay the IMF earlier this week, referring to the step as ... Read More
Plumbing the depths of the effective lower bound joni April 24, 2015 Add Comment Bank of Greece, cash, Danmarks Nationalbank, ECB, large value note embargo, SNB, Willem Buiter, zero lower bound Edit Unfathomable Depths by Ibai Acevedo Denmark's Nationalbank and the Swiss National Bank are the world's most interesting central ban... Read More
Grexit: An Escape to More of the Same joni Januari 24, 2015 Add Comment Bank of Greece, dollarization/euroization, drachma, ECB, Hans-Werner Sinn, hysteresis, medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account Edit The upcoming Greek election has renewed interest in the idea of Grexit. This option is often presented to the Greek public as desirable give... Read More