2026 will likely be the year when we will start to see serious flaws, with the pure fiat global monetary system exposed. The root cause is the need for accommodating central bank policies in the face ...
Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...
A few years ago I wrote a piece, for Public Discourse, called “Montesquieu and the Monetary System.” It discussed our having fiat money, non-gold-standard money, today, from the perspective of the ...
Top central bankers said stablecoins performed “badly” as money, despite Trump’s ongoing push to integrate them into mainstream finance. The BIS concluded that stablecoins failed the three main tests ...
Fiat money and commodity money represent two distinct forms of currency, each defined by what gives it value. Fiat money is government-issued currency that has no intrinsic value but holds purchasing ...