In his letter (“Currency Board for Africa Has Two Key Limitations,” Jan. 6) responding to my “Farewell to the CFA Franc” (op-ed, Dec. 31), George Ayittey asserts that leaders in the region would never ...

Argentina, Lebanon, Turkey and numerous other countries are in the grips of serious inflation. This episode of What’s Ahead discusses a device, which when properly employed promptly ends debilitating ...

Currency board arrangements, under which domestic currency can be issued only to the extent that it is fully covered by the central bank's holdings of foreign exchange, were long generally dismissed ...

Venezuela’s currency, the bolivar, has tanked. Just take a look at the ugly chart below. Thanks to the collapse of the bolivar, Venezuela has earned the dreadful distinction of being the world’s only ...

The following communication, concerning the powers of the Palestine Currency Board, has been received from Mr. Fletcher-Cooke of the United Kingdom Delegation. May I refer you to paragraph 5 of your ...

In his letter (Aug. 15) responding to my op-ed “Floating Currencies Compound Uncertainty” (Aug. 9), Prof. William Miles states that “currency boards would lead to more of the banking crises, debt ...

Estonia, Lithuania and Bulgaria shouldn’t rush to adopt Europe’s common currency given the euro- region’s turmoil and the limited benefits of the switch, said Steve Hanke, the architect of the nations ...

THE deepening crisis in Argentina is more than just the latest emerging-market meltdown. The country's troubles come with a twist. A decade ago Argentina fixed its currency, the peso, against the ...

STEVE HANKE had an interesting 1998. He briefly became Indonesia’s monetary czar as firebombs flew in Jakarta streets, made headlines in a dozen languages and visited Bill Clinton in the White House.

Will Trump’s FTC Rein In Lina Khan’s Abuses? U.N.’s Global Carbon Tax Should Be a Wake-Up Call to Fight International Climate Extremism Audio By Carbonatix As Sri Lanka enters its 17th IMF program, it ...

In 1999, Milton Friedman, the world’s foremost monetary luminary, foretold the rise of cryptocurrencies. Here’s what he had to say: I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for ...