How the US Dollar Became Trade’s Default
Nearly 90% of international transactions in 2019 were in U.S. dollars, giving the U.S. extraordinary power over nearly every...
Money Buys Some Happiness; Health Buys You More
Can money buy happiness? Two centuries’ worth of books suggest it can Source: The Economist This is a fascinating look at...
How Counterfeiting Led to Modern Money
In 1966, Australia switched from pounds to decimal currency. The country’s central bank issued a new range of banknotes with modern...
MIB: How to recover from a setback
Imagine you are the founders of an early a social-networking website at an Ivy league school. You want top expand the footprint, so you...
Transcript: Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss
The transcript from this week’s MIB: Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss is below. You can stream/download the full conversation,...
MIB: Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss
This week, we speak with co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini. The duo received a multimillion-dollar settlement in 2008 after...
In Money We Trust?
In Money We Trust? is an illuminating one-hour public television documentary that answers the question, “What is money?” In...
Cryptocurrency has no place at the table…
Some good advice from the folks at Recode: “So in case the people around your table bought into crypto last year and didn’t get...
Dalio on Debt & Depression
Dalio Says Next Downturn Is ‘Couple of Years’ Away Dalio Says ‘Time to Buy Is When There’s Blood in the...
How Value Flows in Crypto
In today’s morning reads, I linked to this Medium column, which is worth reading idf you are interested in this sort of stuff:...