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    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      The Long ViewDigital currencies
      Jackson Hole, Worldcoin and the tricky act of central banking

      The assumption that there is a good governance model for who gets to make decisions on money is flawed

    • Saturday, 29 July, 2023
      On Wall StreetMonetary policy
      Heavy credit-card users are key in the Fed’s inflation battle

      Demand for credit may be falling in some areas, but plastic is a different story

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      On Wall StreetUS Dollar
      The dollars are not fragile

      The world thinks of treasuries as assets and no other country has been able to produce more sovereign debt than the US

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Central banks
      A new birding guide for central bankers

      Caw blimey

    • Saturday, 22 April, 2023
      On Wall StreetMonetary policy
      The contentious idea that still challenges the Fed

      Central bank remains wary of Andrew Brimmer’s proposal that it should take a more active role on credit allocation

      Andrew Brimmer
    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Markets InsightUS Dollar
      SVB failure raises a question: who gets to create dollars?

      We should ask whether creators like banks should face more regulation or pay more in insurance premiums

      Sheets of one-dollar bills
    • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
      On Wall StreetFederal Reserve
      The Fed needs more administrators

      History of payments shows there is more to central banking than voting to raise or lower interest rates

      Lael Brainard
    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      The Long ViewUS politics & policy
      The $1tn coin: a silly idea to resolve the US debt ceiling wrangles

      The proposal is a response with uncertain outcomes to a threat with known and catastrophic consequences

    • Saturday, 24 December, 2022
      On Wall StreetMarkets
      One last eggnog on credit

      What a 235-year-old ledger can teach us after a year of chaos in digital money

      A barroom scene: the tabs people ran up give accounts of their lives and the methods they used to pay
    • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
      On Wall StreetSovereign bonds
      Forever is a long time to finance anyone

      Perpetual gilts would need a dedicated fund to pay them back

    • Saturday, 5 November, 2022
      On Wall StreetFederal Reserve
      It’s still Ben Bernanke and Milton Friedman’s Fed

      Central bank policymakers do not seem to want to find new tools that work

      Milton Friedman and Ben Bernanke
    • Saturday, 8 October, 2022
      On Wall StreetCentral banks
      Are we expecting sovereign debt to do too much?

      Somehow we have forgotten fully half of what a central bank could do

      Picture of the 19th century economist and journalist Walter Bagehot
    • Saturday, 10 September, 2022
      On Wall StreetCurrencies
      Countries do not control their own currencies

      We are taught that money comes from the nation state. This was never true

      Montage of falling hundred dollar bills
    • Saturday, 18 June, 2022
      On Wall StreetFinancial services
      Banks are still not your friends

      Crypto aside, consumer finance needs fixing

    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
      FT SeriesSix of the best summer boating adventures
      The world in our PocketShip

      At 4.5m, a ‘stitch and glue’ dinghy is the exact opposite of a superyacht. But it’s a happy little daydream regardless

    • Saturday, 21 May, 2022
      On Wall StreetCryptocurrencies
      The eternal dream of automatic money

      A currency that cannot be corrupted by bad decisions is not what humans really want

    • Friday, 29 April, 2022
      The Long ViewFederal Reserve
      The Fed’s balance sheet is normal and political

      Central bank choices will always help some people more than others

      The Federal Reserve building in Washington
    • Saturday, 26 March, 2022
      On Wall StreetWar in Ukraine
      A superyacht is a terrible asset

      Russians hold a disproportionate number of the biggest ones

    • Saturday, 12 February, 2022
      On Wall StreetStablecoins
      Stablecoin firms should be regulated like the banks they are

      Holders of the digital assets should have similar protections to depositors

      A montage of a dollar sign and cryptocurrency exchange signs
    • Saturday, 8 January, 2022
      On Wall StreetBitcoin
      Crypto world divide exposed by ‘bividend’

      BTCS Nasdaq-listed company distributes capital in bitcoin — an asset with value, but no purpose

      BTCS was founded as a pure cryptocurrency company in 2013
    • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
      FT SeriesHow to eat and drink it this Christmas
      Our 25 favourite hotel bars

      We asked FT writers to nominate the best destinations for the perfect drink. Here are the top picks

      Bar Longhi at The Gritti Palace, Venice
    • Saturday, 20 November, 2021
      The Long ViewDigital currencies
      MiamiCoin, a currency without sovereignty

      City-states have always had their own money, but they have also controlled it

      Miami mayor Francis Suarez speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, in June 2021
    • Saturday, 9 October, 2021
      The Long ViewUS economy
      The $1tn coin is a poor replacement for US treasuries

      Platinum currency is a short-term tactic for the White House but not a long-term fix 

    • Saturday, 11 September, 2021
      FT readers respond
      ‘Surviving 9/11’: FT Readers share their thoughts

      Join the conversation in the comments below to tell us your memories of the day.

      The wreck of the World Trade Center smoulders on September 11 2001
    • Wednesday, 8 September, 2021
      FT MagazineTerrorism
      ‘I am still captive’: surviving 9/11

      When the Twin Towers fell, Brendan Greeley ran. This is his story 

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