Swexit? Sweden’s Euro-Skeptics Win Big
In Sweden this weekend, the anti-immigrant, euro-skeptic Sweden Democrats made major gains. Neither of the larger center-left or center-right coalitions were able to break...
Don’t Assume it Can’t Happen Here
Emerging market currencies are in the tank. The Turkish lira is plummeting, as is the Argentine peso. Stronger emerging markets are even feeling the...
Can Bitcoin Ever Really Be a Currency?
The Leaders at The Economist explore what it means to be a currency, and whether or not bitcoin and other crypto-currencies meet that definition....
Can Crypto-Currencies Ever be Safe?
After hackers stole digital currency assets from South Korean currency exchange Coinrail recently, the question must be asked, can bitcoin and other crypto-currencies be...
Can Cyrpto-currency Revolutionize the News Business?
Can an initial coin offering selling "tokens" that will fund media ventures be used to revolutionize, and even save the news business? The Civil...
Sweden Puts the Brakes on its Cashless Society Plans
How quickly things can change. Back in April I wrote to you of Sweden's all out dash toward creating the world's first cashless society....
Steve Forbes: Here’s Why Cryptocurrencies Aren’t Money
Writing in his eponymous magazine, Steve Forbes explains to readers why cryptocurrencies cannot be "real" money, at least not the way they're set up...
Forbes: Powell’s Fed Still Believes in Funny Money
In an editorial appearing in his eponymous magazine, Steve Forbes writes that the Federal Reserve's new chairman, Jerome Powell will continue the same bad...
Cryptocurrencies: The Kolion
“Mr. Shlyapnikov has launched a cryptocurrency, the kolion, named after his hamlet some 80 miles southeast of Moscow, buoyed by an initial investment of...
Bitcoin Diehards are HODL
"After bitcoin’s frenzied rally last year, prices have lost about two-thirds of their value from a December high. The cryptocurrency had been trading around $7,000...