2018-6-19 12:27 |
The first phase of a transition toward a true “money of the people” will be implemented by central banks themselves, striving and competing to remain relevant in a post-crisis, post-trust, digitally connected global economy.
The Bank of International Settlements – a kind of international club for central banks – has echoed Carney’s concerns, as have other officials.
Banks are the problem
The only reason to promote digital fiat currencies is precisely to bypass the banks.
This would be an addition to the central bank toolkit for managing money supply, which currently hinges on a combination of a policy rate imposed on banks’ reserves and interventions in the two-way market for buying and selling government securities with banks.
Central banks can’t put the cryptocurrency genie back in the bottle.
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