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…
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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…
Governments Scramble To Manage, Regulate, and Throttle Crypto
On January 15, 2022, the Canadian government closed its borders to unvaccinated American truckers and began requiring domestic truckers to show proof of COVID vaccination when crossing northward, infuriating drivers and snarling…