Monetary policy guides inflation and economic growth. Learn what it means, the main types, and how central banks manage interest rates and stabilize the economy.

What if the affordability crisis is not a failure of markets at all? What if it is the predictable outcome of how modern ...

Explore unconventional monetary policy, including quantitative easing, and learn how these strategies can stimulate economic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A few years ago I wrote a piece, for Public Discourse, called “Montesquieu and the Monetary System.” It discussed our having fiat ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Central banks should still be able to conduct monetary policy effectively and perhaps be even nimbler in a more decentralized financial system, according to the findings of a joint ...

This model may define the next generation of global finance, shaped by digital adoption, institutional evolution and ...

Even Milton Friedman—who never supported gold as money—admitted that a monetary system based on gold would “take care of ...

Over history, the world has adopted the currency of the leading country for global payments. The USD is, arguably, the first global currency untethered from precious metals. Despite external ...

The modern monetary system, built on fiat money, has weak foundations similar to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, risking economic instability and collapse. Historical debasement practices, like those of ...

By Silvia SGHERRITwice in the last century, the foundations of global finance shifted, because the burden placed on the ...