Don Quijones: People Not Amused by EU Efforts to “De-Cash” their Lives
EU survey results show respondents overwhelmingly oppose proposals to impose an EU-wide cash ceiling that would throttle use of cash.
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Visa Trying to Bribe Merchants to Stop Taking Cash
The latest chapter in the War on Cash.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Cryptocurrencies Collapsed
Why “collapsed” is not too strong a word to describe the recent price action for currency wannabes.
Read more...Some Remarks on MMT & Marxism in Light of David Harvey’s “Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason”
How Marxists can make use of the MMT framework rather than falling for neoliberal dogma about money and debt.
Read more...Yet Another Form of Crapification: Stranded Money
Some examples of stranded funds as yet another way of degrading the customer experience.
Read more...The Bank Competition Myth
Why banks should not be considered to be private enterprises.
Read more...In Bleak Prognosis, Italy’s Financial Regulator Threatens EU with Return to a “National Currency”
European officials continue to dither while Italy’s banks burn.
Read more...Business Press Waking Up to Bank Legacy IT Risk
Reuters discusses the challenge of moving off legacy systems. While the piece is a long overdue, it still seems more than a tad optimistic.
Read more...India’s “Bold Experiment With Cash”: Debunking Myths
India radical demonetization policy: Is this a decisive action against the black economy or an ill-considered, damagingly arbitrary act?
Read more...Why Central Bankers Should Not Be Trusted With Money: Greek Exit Edition
An upcoming Greek bailout is leading to new discussion of the idea of a Grexit. And as before, some well-meaning ideas are wildly impractical.
Read more...Demonetisation: India’s Stress Test
Did India’s sudden removal of 86% of hard currency from circulation achieve its aim of fighting corruption? And how much did it hurt growth?
Read more...Things Just Got Serious in Europe’s War on Cash
Latest salvo on cash: European Commission explores setting a maximum limit on cash transactions, to apply cross-regionally from 2018.
Read more...Don Quijones: Power & Profit Fuel War on Cash in Europe
Be warned: European officials have already starting taking tough moves in the war on cash.
Read more...The Global War on Cash – India’s Demonetization Debacle
India’s demonetization debacle has destroyed growth in what was the world’s fastest growing economy while failing to ferret out black money.
Read more...The Global War on Cash – Lessons from History
Introduction Regular readers will be fully up to speed on the Reserve Bank of India’s botched attempt at a handbrake turn style demonetisation thanks to Jerri-Lynn Scofield’s thorough coverage (see here, here and here for more background on this sorry tale). But the Indian government’s attempt at implementing a strategy of moving an economy away from physical cash […]
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