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Some Things a Central Bank's Banker Doesn't Know About Monetary History

Larry White/July 26, 2018June 19, 2022

In February 2018 Agustin Carstens, the General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, gave a speech at Goethe University in Frankfurt entitled “Money in the digital age: what role for central banks?” The speech quickly became notorious in the cryptocurrency community for its brusque…

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