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Making Money…Less Useful?
Making Money…Less Useful?
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Making Money...Less Useful?
One of my brothers recently joked that he would love to meet the person who first pitched gift cards. Who ever thought that consumers would agree to make their money less useful? This is an important question for economists as well. Carl Menger’s famous book…
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Why Tesla bought bitcoin
Why Tesla bought bitcoin
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Why Tesla bought bitcoin - Works in Progress Magazine
Everybody loves to hate Bitcoin. Yet big business is spending hundreds of millions on it, helping to drive the price higher and higher. It’s easy to dismiss that as a marketing fad.
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Nanotechnology’s spring
Nanotechnology’s spring
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Nanotechnology’s spring - Works in Progress Magazine
Nanotechnology sometimes sounds as much like science fiction as artificial intelligence once did. But the problems holding it back seem solvable, and some of the answers may lie inside our own bodies.
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How one Kiwi tamed inflation
How one Kiwi tamed inflation
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How one Kiwi tamed inflation - Works in Progress Magazine
Inflation targeting is now standard in central banking. But it began with an offhand comment and a political gamble in New Zealand – long before economists took it seriously.