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The Great Financial Reset: IMF Managing Director Calls for a ‘New Bretton Woods Moment’

DIGIT — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 02:00:35 +0000

As the global economy shudders from the disastrous effects of central planning, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director in Washington, DC, Kristalina Georgieva is calling for a “new Bretton Woods moment.” Georgieva spoke about the juncture on October 15, and she stressed today’s economic hardships are the same as the difficulties the world faced […]

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The World Bank’s Blockchain Bond Is Just a Fancy Way of Selling Debt

DIGIT — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:30:00 +0000

Last year the World Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced a permissioned Ethereum-based blockchain to facilitate the end-to-end issuance of bonds between financial partners. The Bretton Woods-created financial institution hopes to make debt capital markets far more efficient with a bank-to-bank blockchain network. At the same time, the World Bank’s bond scheme has […]

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Hayek’s 1984: Rediscovered Footage Shows Austrian Economist Predicting Bitcoin

DIGIT — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 22:30:35 +0000

Born in 1899 in Vienna, Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek is a legend of sorts in voluntaryist, libertarian, and crypto-economic circles. Freshly rediscovered video footage of the Austrian School philosopher and social theorist from 1984 is now making the rounds on crypto Twitter. In a stunning soundbite of an already well-known quote, Hayek declares that […]

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Big Sister Watching: IMF’s Lagarde Warns of Crypto’s Dark Side

DIGIT — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:51:41 +0000

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde released a blog post Tuesday, March 13, Addressing the Dark Side of the Crypto World. In it, she argues increasing fascination with cryptocurrencies has brought along grave costs: money laundering, terrorism, and economic instability. Also read: Québec Premier: We’re Not Really Interested in Bitcoin Mining IMF Managing Director […]

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