Compare barter and currency systems. Discover why currency dominates modern trade and explore the evolution of digital ...

Pennies are worth more dead than alive. That’s been true for a long time. Constant inflation, even at the low levels of the ...

The modern monetary system, built on fiat money, has weak foundations similar to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, risking economic instability and collapse. Historical debasement practices, like those of ...

Over history, the world has adopted the currency of the leading country for global payments. The USD is, arguably, the first global currency untethered from precious metals. Despite external ...

Even before the recent geopolitical tensions flared up, cracks had already started appearing in the global monetary system dominated by the US dollar. Much of that was due to the rise of China as an ...