Monetary Gold’s David Schroeder joined Steven Gardner for his second appearance, and the two had a wide-ranging conversation about the economy and the direction of the country. They talked about Washington’s nonstop spending, the growing national debt, and how borrowing trillions each year puts pressure on the dollar. Schroeder pointed out that central banks around…

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The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Digital Currency Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today released the findings of their initial technological research into a central bank digital currency, or CBDC. The published research describes a theoretical high-performance and resilient transaction processor for a CBDC that was developed using open-source research software, OpenCBDC. This collaborative effort, known…

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