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 ...

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 ...

Economist Lynette Zang issued a stark warning about the future of the U.S. dollar and global monetary stability, pointing to the implications of President Donald Trump's “Genius Act” and the rapid ...

Earlier this month, I had the privilege of participating in the conversations held in the various lounges and side events connected to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, ...

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 ...

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino on Saturday called for a "holistic approach" in designing the global future ...

Demand for stablecoins has risen significantly but the crypto assets shouldn’t be the mainstay of the future monetary system, a group representing the world’s top central banks said. Stablecoins, a ...

This article is part one of The Conversation’s “Business Basics” series where we ask leading experts to discuss key concepts in business, economics and finance. For the most part, economists continue ...