The gold trick joni Juli 25, 2017 Add Comment Federal Reserve, gold, gold standard Edit Now that the U.S. debt ceiling season is upon us again, I've been wondering if the U.S.'s official gold price is going to finally be... Read More
Money as layers joni Februari 28, 2017 Add Comment Bitcoin, cash, fintech, gold Edit Source Whenever I try to come up with a metaphor for the monetary and banking system I think about the 2010 film Inception , one of my favor... 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
A 21st century gold standard joni April 20, 2016 Add Comment coins, compensated dollar, David Glasner, gold, gold standard, Irving Fisher, Lars Christensen, Nick Rowe, quantitative easing, TIPS, zero lower bound Edit Imagine waking up in the morning and checking the hockey scores, news, the weather, and how much the central bank has adjusted the gold cont... Read More
Cryptocurrencies as protection from the government joni Januari 25, 2016 Add Comment Cyprus, Fiat, gold, government Edit Recently, International Monetary Fund released a report on Virtual Currencies . Overall, it's not a bad report - it discusses whether vi... Read More
Non-fungible currencies - gold bars and art joni Mei 14, 2015 Add Comment art, Bitcoin, Crypto 2.0, Ethereum, gold, Ripple Edit Fungibility is one of the desired properties of money. You want every unit of money to be worth exactly its face value and be interchangeab... 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
Why so down? joni Maret 04, 2015 Add Comment gold, nominal interest rates, Paul Krugman Edit If you've been reading Bill Gross's last few letters, you'll know that he's been a bit grumpy of late. It's that dang n... Read More