This month China’s central bank revealed that its digital currency, the e-CNY, had been used for 7trn-yuan-worth of transactions in its short life—an amount equivalent to almost $1trn. China is not ...

Money is one of humanity’s greatest inventions. But crises of credit have been with us since ancient times.

This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. MONEY PREDATES history. Before the ancient Mesopotamians ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

The history of women and money is one of unequal standards and more recent developments than you might expect. I had several conversations with some friends of mine – female financial leaders who ...

A new children’s book aims to explain the concept of Bitcoin as the next evolution in the history of money. Arkadiusz Blazyca’s motivation for writing his new children’s book The Valley of Prosperity ...

AI, like money before it, is fundamentally a coordination technology that's reorganizing society, but unlike money's gradual evolution with institutional safeguards built through centuries of struggle ...