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(This isn't a piece of financial advice. It's more of a fun parable about interest rates.) So here's an interesting financial ridd…

Over the years I've had a lot of connections to the Bank of Montreal. I'm a disgruntled ex-customer, a fairly happy shareholder, and a former…

The global rise in interest rates is finally beginning to percolate into the stablecoin sector. One of the effects of this rise is that centralized s…

U.S. banks are at it again. Inflation is at its highest level in decades. At the same time, interest rates on deposits at the Fed, Treasury bills, bo…

I often encounter memes claiming that fiat money is to blame for all sorts of government evils. Here is one example from Kraken bitcoin strategist sp…

Chase Sunset & Vine, 2012. Painting by Alex Schaefer There is a fundamental asymmetry to banking. Banks don't like to share higher interest r…

My work as an inter-planetary monetary anthropologist has brought me to dozens of different planets to study their monetary systems. The monetary sys…