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Is Our Money Broken?
“At its core, money is a ledger,” writes investment analyst Lyn Alden in her new book Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better. And…
Caitlin Long on Why Politics Should Stay Out of Banking
After 22 years on Wall Street, Caitlin Long got intrigued by bitcoin and the blockchain in 2012. From 2018 through 2020 she served as a member of the Wyoming Blockchain Task Force,…
She's Suing the Fed To Open a Rothbardian Bitcoin Bank
Caitlin Long wants to start a new kind of bank…based on a very old model. “A 100 percent reserve bank that would keep all of our cash at the Fed,” she says. She…
Bitcoin's Greatest Test
Fifteen years after Satoshi Nakamoto dropped a nine-page white paper on an obscure email list sketching out an idea for a new peer-to-peer digital currency, bitcoin has become a global phenomenon. And…
'Cash Is Independence': Ron DeSantis Slams the Government's Plan for Centrally-Controlled Digital Money
President Joe Biden and the media are excited about something new: a Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC. It’s a currency like bitcoin, except controlled by the federal government. Not everyone is…
Balaji's Bet: Bitcoin Hits $1 Million in 90 Days. Live With Balaji Srinivasan, Lawrence White, and Zach Weissmueller
“You buy 1 BTC. I will send $1M USD.” Those were the stakes that venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan proposed over Twitter to pseudonymous writer and self-described “tax enthusiast” James Medlock on March…
Blame the Government for the New Banking Crisis? Live With Lyn Alden, Arnold Kling and Zach Weissmueller
“We have learned over the last few days that many small and mid-sized banks in this country are Zombies,” writes Arnold Kling, a senior scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason…