As the United States grapples with mounting fiscal pressures and an increasingly precarious debt trajectory, President Donald Trump’s systematic assault on Federal Reserve independence represents a ...

Demand for stablecoins has risen significantly but the crypto assets shouldn’t be the mainstay of the future monetary system, a group representing the world’s top central banks said. Stablecoins, 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 ...

Circle gets Fed backstop facilities, discount-window access, FDIC insurance on USDC (or something functionally equivalent) ...

The past week has seen the Trump Administration upending US support for two critical facets of the post-war international order: the rules-based arrangements for international trade and the Western ...

Over the years the responsibility of stabilization policy have increasingly been place on the shoulders of central banks. However, for central banks to deliver on this mandate their monetary policy ...

Central banks have been buying gold at record levels. A gold standard limits government growth and promotes economic growth. A return to a gold standard could address the negative impacts of a fiat ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The gold standard did not prevent the hyperinflation of the 1970s, or the slowdown in growth the American economy in the 2000s.