Why is a one pound coin worth more than four pennies? joni Agustus 10, 2017 Add Comment Bank of England, coins Edit The new 12-sided pound coin released earlier this year The UK's recently-introduced one pound coin is made of 8.75 grams of metal, 76% ... Read More
Dictionary money joni Juli 21, 2017 Add Comment coins, Nick Rowe, Unidad de Fomento, unit of account Edit Nick Rowe points out that if a central bank wants to control the economy's price level, it needn't issue any actual money—it can ju... Read More
The road to sound digital money joni Juni 20, 2017 Add Comment Bitcoin, cash, coins, currency, Fedcoin Edit No, I'm not talking about sound money in the sense of having a stable value. I'm talking about money that is sound because it can su... Read More
C-day and military money joni April 09, 2017 Add Comment cash, coins, demonetization, dollarization/euroization, scrip Edit Did Indian PM Narendra Modi get the idea for the recently-executed demonetization by watching old episodes of M*A*S*H, a 1970s hit TV show ... Read More
Bringing back the Somali shilling joni Maret 26, 2017 Add Comment coins, dollarization/euroization, fiat money, hysteresis Edit Somalia has long played host to one of the world's strangest monetary phenomenon, a paper currency without a central bank. I explored th... Read More
A 21st century U.S. trade dollar joni Desember 02, 2016 Add Comment bimetallism, coins, dollarization/euroization, Federal Reserve, Ken Rogoff, legal tender Edit "America's only unwanted, unhonoured coin." - John Willem on the silver trade dollar. The inspiration for this post comes fro... Read More
How anonymous is cash? joni Oktober 27, 2016 Add Comment anonymity, Bitcoin, cash, coins, De Nederlandsche Bank, gold, Ken Rogoff Edit Dutch 10 guilder note. Holland and Lebanon are the only countries to have issued banknotes with bar codes. One of the interesting things tha... Read More
From ancient electrum to modern currency baskets (with a quick detour through symmetallism) joni Mei 27, 2016 Add Comment Alfred Marshall, bimetallism, China, coins, compensated dollar, gold standard, Gresham's Law, Irving Fisher, Lars Christensen, legal tender, Milton Friedman, symmetallism Edit Electrum coins [ source ] First proposed by economist Alfred Marshall in the late 19th century as an alternative metallic standard to the go... Read More