THE European money crisis only dramatized what many experts have long regarded as an unassailable dictum: the free world’s monetary system is overdue for an overhaul. That system—the internationally ...

Even Milton Friedman—who never supported gold as money—admitted that a monetary system based on gold would “take care of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A few years ago I wrote a piece, for Public Discourse, called “Montesquieu and the Monetary System.” It discussed our having fiat ...

Over history, the world has adopted the currency of the leading country for global payments. The USD is, arguably, the first global currency untethered from precious metals. Despite external ...

This model may define the next generation of global finance, shaped by digital adoption, institutional evolution and ...

Nevin Freeman, co-founder of Reserve, previews Monetarium 2’s dual agenda: preserving the US dollar versus designing new monetary frameworks. In an interview with TheStreet Roundtable, Nevin Freeman ...

Trillions of dollars injected into the monetary system during periods of quantitative easing are now being seen in the stock and bond markets. Institutions and investors have a record $5.7 trillion in ...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) unveiled a new vision for the future of the global monetary and financial system, centered on a tokenized unified ledger. This innovative framework aims to ...

It would safeguard monetary stability, fend off private payment monopolies, and stand as a potent symbol of European unity The digital euro project has a simple motivation: to ensure that people in a ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The massive and sprawling $1 billion welfare-fraud schemes engulfing Minnesota are now casting fresh scrutiny on an old, opaque money-transfer network used by Somali Americans to ...