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Currency
June 19, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Martin Shkreli Joins Trump Crypto Game in the Weirdest Way Ever
The pharmaceutical price gouger and general jerk is behind a brand new Trump-branded cryptocurrency.
June 13, 2024
Timothy Noah
10 Questions That Chief Execs Should be Asking Trump
Top of the list: How do we keep a straight face when you pretend to be an inflation hawk?
January 24, 2024
Timothy Noah
Let’s Abolish the $100 Bill
Benjamins are the favorite currency of criminals and almost no one else—and there’s no good reason to go on printing them.
September 29, 2022
Timothy Noah
The Dollar Is Strong. Sound Good? It Isn’t.
A strong dollar is bad for exports. But no one cares because these days our most favored export is … the dollar.
June 21, 2022
Federico Perelmuter
Argentina Keeps Redesigning Its Currency, Solving Nothing
Three consecutive presidents have changed the look of the country’s bills—not to address economic issues like inflation but to project their political values.
July 22, 2019
Alexis Papazoglou
Facebook Is a New Form of Power
Yes, it's more powerful than most companies. But it's not quite like a government, either.
July 14, 2016
Saif Alnuweiri
Brexit has already made traveling to the EU more expensive for Brits.
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