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    Chris Larsen Steps Down As Ripple CEO

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    By Michael del Castillo, There’s soon to be a new man in charge of distributed ledger startup Ripple. Four years and almost $100m after CEO Chris Larsen joined the aspiring Swift alternative, he’s handing over the reins to the company’s president,...

    Henrik Fisker Unveils His Tesla Competitor

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      BY TOM BRANT, Henrik Fisker, who recently relaunched his namesake car company, today unveiled what he hopes will be a competitor to Tesla. Called EMotion, it’s an electric sports car that will achieve a 161 mph top speed and a 400-mile electric range....

    EVERYONE ASSUMES THEY KNOW WHAT MONEY IS…

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    Most Have No Idea. The author of the article below wants to know, “How much money there is in the world?” It’s a great question. But the author goes on to show that she has no idea what money is. That’s OK; most people don’t know what it is. In fact, there are so many...

    The vexed question of the dollar

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    BY ALASDAIR MACLEOD There is little doubt that the rapid expansion of both dollar-denominated debt and monetary quantities since the financial crisis will lead us into a currency crisis. We just don’t know when, and the dollar is not alone. All the major paper...

    Fiat money and gold

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    BY ALASDAIR MACLEOD It is time to revisit the Fiat Money Quantity (FMQ), which totals US dollar money deposited in the banking system, the commercial banks’ money on deposit at the Fed and physical cash. Besides alerting us to how the expansion of fiat money is...
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