Money is one of humanity’s greatest inventions. But crises of credit have been with us since ancient times.

Money as a concept has been a cornerstone of human civilization and economic development. To start with the latter, money is a method of storing value and worth, and it also functions as a medium of ...

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and digital balances. But new research led by University at Albany Anthropology ...

This month China’s central bank revealed that its digital currency, the e-CNY, had been used for 7trn-yuan-worth of transactions in its short life—an amount equivalent to almost $1trn. China is not ...

Gold, silver, bronze or paper: money tells the story of 2,700 years of human history. An essential tool for trade and a symbol of power, it fuelled the expansion of empires and changed the course of ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

The history of women and money is one of unequal standards and more recent developments than you might expect. I had several conversations with some friends of mine – female financial leaders who ...

At the same time, M2 has bounced back in a big way since its trough. In October 2025, M2 money supply advanced to a fresh all-time high of nearly $22.3 trillion. Expanding money supply is typically a ...

In a recent post, I shared some thoughts regarding how parents can communicate with each other when it comes to financial decisions during the stage of family life when young adult children are ...