Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economic policy for the 21st century. Today is a period when we are building the foundation for the monetary systems ...

Even Milton Friedman—who never supported gold as money—admitted that a monetary system based on gold would “take care of ...

Monetary policy guides inflation and economic growth. Learn what it means, the main types, and how central banks manage interest rates and stabilize the economy.

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in ...

This model may define the next generation of global finance, shaped by digital adoption, institutional evolution and ...

Repo operations at the Fed on the last day of 2025 signal growing stress in the financial system, similar to the setup we saw ...

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 ...

This is an opinion editorial by Taimur Ahmad, a graduate student at Stanford University, focusing on energy, environmental policy and international politics. Author’s note: This is the first part of a ...

THE European money crisis only dramatized what many experts have long regarded as an unassailable dictum: the free world’s monetary system is overdue for an overhaul. That system—the internationally ...

Among the first objections that arise for anyone who has just learned about Bitcoin is “this is too complicated to understand.” And it’s true; private keys, block times, difficulty adjustments, UTXOs, ...

U.S. dollar history shows international monetary system can evolve quickly But lack of alternatives implies that dollar should remain at system's center Stronger system requires efforts from advanced, ...

Jeremy Allaire is co-founder, chairman and CEO of Circle, which, with Coinbase, pioneered the open standards CENTRE Consortium and USD Coin (USDC) – a dollar-backed stablecoin used in millions of ...