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Finance

What Goldman Gets Wrong About Bitcoin (From Someone Who Used to Work There)

Goldman's bitcoin research is wrong in key respects. But, as with J.K Rowling, the fault may lie with bitcoiners for not communicating clearly, says an ex-GS staffer.

Goldman Sachs office, Jersey City, N.J. (Credit: Akshay Sadarangani/Unsplash)

Markets

Finance and the Real Economy Can't Stay Out of Sync Forever

While Main Street is shut down, the financial world keeps moving as quickly as ever. That's not a sustainable situation, says our columnist.

Credit: Murray Campbell/Unsplash

Policy

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Money Printer

Money printer go brrrrrrr. In a world inherently short of dollars, refusing to increase supply is anything but responsible and rational, says columnist Jill Carlson.

Money printer

Markets

Don't Apply 2008 Thinking to Today's Crisis

Economists, analysts and big bank CEOs tell us there is nothing to fear because this time is different from 2008. If only it were so simple.

WELCOME TO 2020: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer dons the N95 respirator prior to the arrival of international passengers at Dulles International Airport, March 13. (Credit: CBP/Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

Stop Treating Bitcoin as Risky. It's a Safer Asset Than Most

Bitcoin is often lumped in risky assets like growth stocks, high yield debt, high beta ETFs, venture capital, and emerging markets. In fact, it has many hallmarks of a safe haven in a crisis.

Jill Carlson, co-founder of Open Money Initiative

Finance

Don't Obsess Over Crypto End Users, We Still Need Developers to Build the Back End

It’s not all about the needs of end users. Let's focus on the wants of the developers and dreamers who build crypto infrastructure, says CoinDesk columnist Jill Carlson.

Jill Carlson, co-founder of Open Money Initiative

Policy

Ahead of Davos, What Can Cash Teach Us About Crypto?

"I have long held that, were cash invented today, it would be dismissed by policymakers, bankers and law enforcement as dystopian, absurd and dangerous."

Davos 2019 image via Aaron Stanley for CoinDesk

Policy

Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs

Decentralized systems forsake scale, speed and cost in favor of one key feature: censorship resistance. Get used to it.

Jill Carlson, co-founder of Open Money Initiative

Markets

Why Crypto Looks A Lot Like Wall Street

Crypto may have set out to rethink Wall Street, but a decade into the experiment, advisor Jill Carlson isn't convinced the industry has it right.

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