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stefanfurlan (42)in #history • 7 years ago
Thoughts on the Decentralisation of Money 3: The Bretton-Woods Agreement
In my previous post on the history of modern monetary systems, I examined the gold standard regime that underlined international trade between leading world economies in the…
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stefanfurlan (42)in #books • 7 years ago
Books: My Early Life by Winston Churchill
I ran into Churchill’s autobiography when browsing through the Nobel laureates. At first I was surprised to find him amongst the awardees and convinced that the reward was rather…
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stefanfurlan (42)in #books • 7 years ago
Books: Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Another of Isaacson's biographies, this one of a great renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci. He was a controversial man in many ways. Was not a mathematician or physicist, yet he…
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stefanfurlan (42)in #books • 7 years ago
Books: Americana, a 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan
Mayflower, early farmers, tobacco, taxes, cotton, steam, railways, gold, slavery, telegraph, beer, patents, oil, steel, machines, light, retail, guns, media, unions, meat…
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stefanfurlan (42)in #money • 7 years ago
Thoughts on the Decentralisation of Money 2: Commodity Currencies
In my previous post on decentralisation of money , I briefly examined the role of the state in domestic and international monetary arrangements through history. In a series of…
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stefanfurlan (42)in #money • 7 years ago
Books: The History of Money by Jack Weatherford
Short history of money from barter to modern fiat currencies and “plastic” money. Interesting ideas: Power of the ability to print money , which is currently dominated by…
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stefanfurlan (42)in #history • 7 years ago
Books: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
Harari is exploring the next steps in the evolution of human, which he calls homo deus. If this is the future, it looks scary... Interesting thoughts: Humanity has…
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stefanfurlan (42)in #money • 7 years ago
Thoughts on Decentralisation of Money 1
From a purely economic point of view, money has three basic functions: it serves as a unit of account, store of value and means of exchange. From a political standpoint, however…
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stefanfurlan (42)in #book • 7 years ago
Books: Principles by Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio’s reflections with focus on his core principles and his management approach called idea meritocracy. Interesting ideas: Principle as a tool to handle reality .…
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stefanfurlan (42)in #books • 7 years ago
Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber
Insight into the evolution of debt, from 3,500 BC onwards. Interesting facts: Debt/credit precedes money . The author argues that debt and credit offer more logical…
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stefanfurlan (42)in #arbitrage • 7 years ago
Time for Crypto Put-Cal Parity Arbitrage?
With promises of services such as LedgerX to introduce derivatives such as swaps and options on digital currencies, partially reducing counter party risks with external clearing…
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