#Currency

Brad Setser

Brad_Setser

We now have reasonable complete balance of payments data for q1 -- and it is clear that foreign selling of local currency debt was a large source of BoP pressure.

Catapult Capital

catapultcap

Have been pondering #Bitcoin and $GLD lately and wanted to share some thoughts I had on valuation (from the perspective of a currency investor): First, a bit about currency

Sanjay

sgmavinkurve

An alternative phasing of #bitcoin : lottery ticket → insurance → lifeboat → moneyBitcoin started as an optional and massive "asymmetric bet" (@real_vijay) that anyone could place on the future of money. The

THE ONE

THEONE74910858

Does anyone really believe Jay Clayton on his own burnt down XRP a day before resigning ?Why did BG get a 24-hour warning and go public with it almost as

Tom Redshaw

tom_redshaw

Is #Bitcoin a fascist currency? White supremacist Richard Spencer once claimed Bitcoin as the ‘currency of the alt-right’ and many scholars note the overlaps between the far right central

Bruce Lawson

Sapere_vivere

1. I see @afneil is asking supporters of an iScotland what currency they’d use and is yet to get an economically sensible reply so let’s look at the options. 2.

Corporate Machiavelli (Attending To Final Matters)

corporatemach

THREAD:Money Printing Boosts InequalityDisclaimer: This information is very complicated, if you are half asleep come back to it later. American Government Prints Money (Federal Reserve)Printing Money Drives Up Inflation Inflation

Joe Weisenthal

TheStalwart

XRP is kind of this weird faux crypto, very different than most of the rest. But I do think there's one important lesson it holds for the others, and that

Karl Schamotta

vsualst

Quick non-technical chart thread on FX reserves - with the caveat that these draw on the IMF's COFER data, which is excellent, but not perfect. Countries can and do hide

Marty Smith

MartynSmith91

On this "two votes" proposal (short thread)(1/4) Certain elements of the movement have all but conceded that our route to independence will require TWO votes. The precedent was set with

Dr Aloy Chife

ChifeDr

THE CBN’S NEW REMITTANCE POLICY. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) released a regulatory bombshell on November 30 mandating that all dollar remittances into Nigeria will be received in dollars

Travis Reeder

treeder

Stablecoins might be the best thing to come out of cryptocurrency. Stablecoins came out of the cryptocurrency craze as a way to get in and out of trades on crypto

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RokoMijicUK

There are two things that matter in life: (1) virtue signalling (2) making moneyPeople will tell you lies about how there are other things that matter, and how well you

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/7I've just finished reading Stefan Link’s excellent new book. It probably isn’t for everyone, but there is an awful lot here to think about for those trying to understand the

nic carter

nic__carter

there's absolutely no comparing XRP with Bitcoin, it's not "cheaper" than Bitcoin, it's not more energy efficient, because it's not remotely in the same category. the same way you can't

Duncan Hothersall🌹

dhothersall

"Dr Tim Rideout, Economist" has a reassuring ring to it doesn't it? You might assume the doctorate was in economics. You'd be wrong. It's in geography.https://twitter.com/lornagreens/status/1308017812909297667 Be fair,

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