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20 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
Hey, all crypto people :) I recently published my second paper about cryptocurrencies with Nathaniel Dwamena, creator of the African Institute for DeFi and Blockchain (AIDBLOCK). We are writing about crypto, central banks, and monetary policies wor...
29 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments KHubbard
On November 22, 2023, Labrys and Easy Crypto launched a New Zealand Digital Dollar that will be backed 1:1 with cash in trust and regulated by the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority. An August report commissioned by the New Zealand’s parliame...
31 Oct 2023 6 minute read 2 comments MarkHelfman
The Fed, the US’s central bank, will soon meet to decide what to do about interest rates. While nobody expects a rate hike, the Fed says people still have too many jobs and make too much money. It needs to “drain liquidity” and “weaken the labor mark...
22 Sep 2023 2 minute read 1 comment MrBicci
Ripple (XRP) will play a key role in instant payments, what the Fed thinks: Within the FedNow system, the Federal Reserve's internal division, completely dedicated to instant payments, has been launched. This news sparked strong interest in th...
19 Sep 2023 4 minute read 9 comments SweptOverNiagara
About a year ago, I wrote in a post that Americans would start taking notice in earnest regarding the ever ballooning national debt, once the interest payments alone surpassed $1 Trillion. I forecast we would see this number by the end of 2023 as the...
18 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments MrBicci
Interest rates, but where will we end up? The central banks let's repeat it are aiming to keep rates high for as long as possible and unimaginable and of which we are now used to in this historical period. What we are learning about, however, is t...
15 Sep 2023 1 minute read 1 comment MrBicci
Interest rate according to the BCE The BCE raises interest rates for the tenth time in recent modern times, but what is actually behind this umpteenth hike. This effect has drastic and fundamental consequences in ordinary citizens, the so-called l...
15 Sep 2023 4 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara
Over the last couple of years, gold has hit record highs against all currencies. Countries with depreciating currencies were hardest hit. As an example, Canadians paid $1525.30 per ounce of gold on October 1, 2018. This morning, as of writing, that s...
8 Sep 2023 4 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara
It's not a secret anymore that central banks around the world (except Canada's) have been on a roll for the last couple of years buying up huge amounts of gold. Reports are coming in that the gold buying spree has continued unabated through summer. I...
2 Sep 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
Dear all Publish0xers :) I have written a policy paper for African Institute for Decentralised Finance and Blockchain (AIDBLOCK) regarding cryptocurrencies and international financial institutions such as the IMF, BiS, and G20. At the moment, I am...
