Trust-based currencies - good money, bad money, LETS, Ripple, etc. joni April 05, 2015 Add Comment Crypto 2.0, LETS, Open Transactions, Ripple Edit This week at Decentral Vancouver we had a discussion with Michael Linton and Dominique Legault from Open Money about the LETS ( full recor... Read More
The bond-stock conundrum joni Maret 28, 2015 Add Comment inflation, liquidity premium, nominal interest rates, real interest rate, stock market and equities Edit Here's a conundrum. Many commentators have been trying to puzzle out why stocks have been continually hitting new highs at the same time... Read More
An open letter to Senator Ringuette joni Maret 25, 2015 Add Comment Banks, Canada, Canada Post, senate Edit Dear Senator, Recently I revisited some recordings of the Senate hearings on Digital Currency from 2014-10-02. I appreciate the number of ve... Read More
Hawk, Doves, and Canaries joni Maret 18, 2015 Add Comment cash, Danmarks Nationalbank, ECB, nominal interest rates, SNB, zero lower bound Edit Central bankers are usually classified as either hawks or doves. This post is devoted to a third and rare breed; today's monetary policy... Read More
The final chapter in the Zimbabwe dollar saga? joni Maret 12, 2015 Add Comment backing theory of money, cash, deflation, demonetization, Federal Reserve, George Selgin, Zimbabwe Edit Here's an interesting fact. Remember all those worthless Zimbabwe paper banknotes? The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), Zimbabwe's ce... Read More
Paul Krugman contemplates the lower bound joni Maret 07, 2015 Add Comment Michael Woodford, nominal interest rates, Paul Krugman, zero lower bound Edit Paul Krugman has two posts discussing the effective lower bound to interest rates. The first I agree with, albeit with a caveat, and the o... Read More
Governments - do your job. Give us unique digital signatures! joni Maret 07, 2015 Add Comment government, Identities, IDs, KYC Edit This week at Decentral Vancouver we had an interesting discussion with Gene Vayngrib, Greg Meredith and Katryna Dow (the full video of the ... Read More