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It’s been 10 years since the U.S. signed into law a scheme to print money, essentially, and save the financial sector amid the sub-prime mortgage meltdown. Did it work? And who’s truly benefitted?
President Trump has been attacking the Fed’s current policy of slowly raising interest rates. A former central bank official explains why that’s so troubling.
With countries such as China and Sweden are studying plans to create a new form of money – a central-bank digital currency. CBDCs risk revolutionizing both the way money is created and distributed.
The South African Reserve Bank needs to guide the market on how it is going to treat VAT increase in its inflation targeting approach.
As the governor of China’s central bank oversees the stability of the world’s second largest economy, this leadership change is one the global economy is watching closely.
The South African Reserve Bank was justified in placing VBS Mutual Bank under curatorship.
A change in the ownership of the South African Reserve Bank from private shareholders to government shouldn’t impact the constitutional mandate of the central bank in any way.
National cryptocurrencies could make payments faster and prevent crime, but they come with their own risks.
The astronomic rise of the price of bitcoin over the past 12 months raises fears that the cryptocurrency is set to crash which could see many people lose money.
New Zealand’s new government wants the central bank to focus on maximising employment. But experience from other countries shows this is unlikely to change policy.
The chair of the Federal Reserve is often considered the world’s ‘second-most-powerful person.’ So who is Jerome Powell and why does it matter that he may soon head the Fed?
A new report suggests the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia should income a “representative of the poor”. This is a proposal worthy of consideration.
Regulation and oversight could be the saviour or the death of a Bitcoin and others.
South Africa’s Public Protector, has been exposed as incompetent after trying to meddle with the constitutional mandate of the country’s central bank.
Randal Quarles, the president’s first nominee to the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, has argued the bank should use rules to make decisions. But could such a shift prove disastrous in a crisis?
There’s a raging debate in South Africa about the role of its central bank. This is inevitable given that so much is changing in the world of central banking and in economic life.
All over the world people who have been harmed by the conventional money systems are devising alternative currencies, challenging the centralised monetary policy approach.
The prevailing mandate of the South African Reserve Bank is informed by sound economics and the need to protect the institution from the whims of politicians.
A financial system that is sure to collapse if the central bank cares about people’s well-being goes against democratic principle.
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