The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part VI

The Birth of Integral Money The prior installments (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V) of this series traced the multi-millennial competition among monetary media, in which more integral monetary forms reliably defeated less integral ones with the impersonal regularity of water finding its level; examined how the gold standard was dismantled … Continue reading The Monetary Lens: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity Through the Architecture of Money, Part VI →

The Imperial Circle Returns: Are USD Stablecoins America’s Next Monetary Weapon?

This piece draws together ideas emerging from recent public conversations with some of the most compelling monetary thinkers around — most prominently Brent Johnson and Michael Every. What I find particularly striking is that the USD stablecoin thesis explored here isn't confined to one corner of the ideological map. Thinkers like Yanis Varoufakis, coming from … Continue reading The Imperial Circle Returns: Are USD Stablecoins America’s Next Monetary Weapon? →