Tag: money

• Is France breaking with its colonial past in Africa?

  May 24, 2020

  It is the end of an era in West Africa as France moves to scrap the currency used by its former colonies. Eight West African countries will soon be using… more ›

• Chapter 2: Money, Credit, and Debt

  April 25, 2020

  Note: To make this an easier and shorter article to read, I tried to convey the most important points in simple language and bolded them, so you can get the… more ›

• Superyachts and private jets: spending of corrupt super-rich revealed

  October 24, 2019

  The multimillion pound spending habits of corrupt members of the global super-rich – including 421 luxury homes, three superyachts, seven private jets as well as elite private school fees and… more ›

• Q&A: what is the ‘Troika Laundromat’ and how did it work?

  October 24, 2019

  Essentially, it’s the name given to a collection of 70 offshore shell companies whose controllers used them to move billions of dollars of private wealth from Russia to the west.… more ›

• China’s Cryptocurrency Plan Has a Powerful Partner: Big Brother

  October 20, 2019

  Facebook’s Libra project led Beijing to accelerate its efforts. The government could soon know a lot more about how people are spending. BEIJING — When Facebook announced plans this year… more ›

• The Invention of Money

  August 4, 2019

  When the Venetian merchant Marco Polo got to China, in the latter part of the thirteenth century, he saw many wonders—gunpowder and coal and eyeglasses and porcelain. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/the-invention-of-money more ›

• Bitcoin and the money myth

  July 29, 2019

  In recent weeks, Facebook has created a new digital currency and the price of Bitcoin has fluctuated wildly. Has money itself always been an illusion? https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/07/bitcoin-and-money-myth more ›

• Tales from the Crypt #86 : Ben Hunt by Tales from the Crypt : A Bitcoin Podcast : A podcast on Anchor

  July 21, 2019

  Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt (with a guest appearance from James O’Beirne) to discuss some of the running themes from Epsilon Theory, how they relate to… more ›

• Paradigm Shifts

  July 21, 2019

  Identify the paradigm you’re in, examine if and how it is unsustainable, and visualize how the paradigm shift will transpire when that which is unsustainable stops. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paradigm-shifts-ray-dalio more ›

• ‘The Oligarchy’s Operating System’ With Cory Doctorow

  June 26, 2019

  Playing for Team Human today, activist, journalist, and science fiction author of the new anthology Radicalized, Cory Doctorow. Cory has a unique way of building stories, metaphors, and scenarios… https://medium.com/s/teamhuman/the-oligarchys-operating-system-with-cory-doctorow-5f3af6058af8 more ›