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In defense of cash

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Author: William Luther - Assistant Professor of Economics at Kenyon College, Director of the American Institute for Economics Research's Sound Money Project, and Temporary Fellow at the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute. Shortly before November 2016, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a speech that the 500-rupee notes ...

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Why cryptocurrencies won't replace gold

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Mark Spitznagel, Mises.org With each new peak in the price of Bitcoin, claims that it will become the best store of value of our time – the new gold – become more and more frequent. However, we cannot ignore the fact that it is essentially a speculative investment …

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Opinion of EKIP on the restriction of cash payments

|Full text of the opinion| Dear readers, as you know from the EKIP, we have been closely following the topic of regulations on cash payments and the current government's attempts to tighten them even further. In connection with the Ministry of Finance's latest attempt to reduce the limit on the allowable amount for cash payments...

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Bitcoin icon to found own country without government

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Evan Fagart, bitsonline.com Roger Ver – a very well-known figure in the Bitcoin community – along with entrepreneur and cryptocurrency enthusiast Olivier Janssens is planning to found a brand new country. But here’s the catch: this country will have no government and no state, but instead will adhere to the principles of …

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