money

I was daydreaming over the weekend. The subject: notable intellectual epiphanies I’ve experienced in the course of my life. These are moments when someone …

In March, I was at a conference in New Hampshire when a few Bitcoin businessmen sat me down to lunch. It seems like the …

Bitcoin may reach $100 today. That brings the total value of the existing Bitcoin stock (10,960,500) to more than $1 billion. It was only …

I leave Liberty Forum in New Hampshire, a three-day gathering of hundreds of people who are trying to find ways of living freer lives in times of despotic control. With me I have three types of nonpaper, nongovernmental monies. They all operate in competition with the government’s dollar. These include Bitcoin, the mind-blowing digital currency that has techno-geeks, edgy global traders, and even the World Bank buzzing about its potential to finally separate money from the state.

We’ve been telling anyone who will listen that the Fed has gone where the central bank has never gone before. Pre-crisis, the Fed’s available …

Many people complain about government control of currency, but only a few do something about it. I’m not talking about movements to “audit the …

For more than one hundred years, governments have been trying to kill gold’s role in the monetary system. They’ve dreamed of a day when …