Monetary Policy

Perhaps unaware of the criteria for the most functional currency, Nigeria’s new money designers might not have solved its old problems.

Celebrities like Juston Bieber have monetized future income very differently from government’s monetization policies.

When its larger denomination bills suddenly became worthless in 2016, India’s demonetization became a case study about the role of money.

Adopting bitcoin during September 2021, El Salvador’s political leadership did not know all that could go wrong…and it did.

Trying to encourage bitcoin use, El Salvador had all the right incentives but still wound up with unintended consequences.

When Harriet Tubman becomes the face of the $20 instead of Andrew Jackson, she will show what money can say.

Whether looking at 2022 or 1979, we would see that our inflation expectations can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

We have a mystery when we see that corporations are shrinking packages while their CEOs’ inflation expectations are uninformed.

With a renewed need to launder tattered U.S.dollar bills, we have the return of Zimbabwe inflation and their problematic monetary policy.

By adopting Bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador will be the first nation to say that the cryptocurrency is a national currency.