Thomas Paine goes after what he saw as one of the greatest scams in history: governments claiming that paper is money.

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and ...

Monetary debasement can impact a business in a multitude of ways, as it can shape costs, prices, profits, employee retention, ...

The late, great economist and historian of the Federal Reserve, Allan Meltzer – whose three-volume history of the Fed stands ...

Millions of Americans born after the 20th of their birth month will receive their Social Security benefits on Wednesday, ...

University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The confusion and commotion over cryptocurrency often reminds me of the 19th-century German drama Faust. In ...

The quest for sound money is hardly a recent phenomenon. In 13th century Italy, two different gold monetary units competed ...

The confusion and commotion over cryptocurrency often reminds me of the 19th-century German drama Faust. In Goethe's masterpiece, the devil Mephistopheles offers an emperor the tantalizing vision of ...

The Duchess of York wrote a grovelling apology to Jeffrey Epstein because he allegedly vowed to ruin her financially in court ...

September 30 marks the end of an 85-year era with the elimination of paper Social Security checks in the U.S. This shift toward electronic payments seeks to improve efficiency and security, affecting ...

This is systematic behaviour of both the yellow and white metals, and history has demonstrated that Gold always leads the way ...

The most anticipated day of the year is rapidly approaching for the nearly 70 million beneficiaries who took home a ...