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Ripple stärkt Position mit CBDC-Plattform in Zusammenarbeit mit 20 Zentralbanken

"Erfahren Sie, wie Ripple bei den Vorbereitungen für CBDCs von über 20 Staaten führend ist. Interoperabilität, schnelle Transaktionen und niedrige Gebühren machen Ripple zur Top-Wahl. #Ripple #CBDC"

Zentralbank von Nigeria weist Behauptungen zurück, dass sie plant, den Naira 2024 zu redenominieren

Nigerianische Zentralbank dementiert Ankündigung zur Neubewertung des Naira Die nigerianische Zentralbank hat Berichte zurückgewiesen, die in einer weit verbreiteten Textnachricht behaupten, dass sie ab Januar 2024 den schwächelnden Land...

Forensic Analysis of Fed Action on Silver Price

  Forensic Analysis of Fed Action on Silver Price The last few days of trading in silver have been a wild ride. On Wednesday morning in New York, six hours before the Fed was to announce its interest rate hike, the price of silver began to drop. I...

Ukraine and the Next Wave of Inflation, Part II, Can Russia Enact a Gold Standard?

  Can Russia Enact a Gold Standard?   In Part I we discussed how the fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine will lead to inflation, but not in the way most people think.  In Part II we discuss the possibility of Russia repudiating the doll...

Ukraine and the Next Wave of Inflation, Part I

  Inflation from Useless Ingredients The cause of rising prices is not always monetary. Before Covid, we wrote a lot about mandatory useless ingredients. This is when regulators and taxinators force producers to add things to their products, which...

Response: Money and Payments: The US Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation

Implications from the Federal Reserves Paper Our first comment is that every monetary change from the Founding of America through present has been to move away from free markets, and to adulterate our currency. An analogy could be made to the Ship of T...

Perversity: Thy Name is Dollar

Perversity: Thy Name is Dollar If you ask most people, “what is money?” they will answer that money is the generally accepted medium of exchange. If you ask Google Images, it will show you many pictures of green pieces of paper. Virtually everyone ...

Obituary for the Acting Man

          I write this with sadness, still, at the news of the death of my friend Heinz Blasnik. He is better known by his nom de plume, Pater Tenebrarum, who published the economics blog Acting Man and wrote for many other fin...

A Look Back at Nixons Infamous Monetary Policy Decision

  Putting the World on a Paper Standard Half a century ago one of the most disastrous monetary policy decisions in US history was committed by Richard Nixon.  In a television address, the president declared that the nation would no longer redeem ...