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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

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Market Insanity

Should Central Banks Adopt Digital Currencies?

The PBOC is in a rush to develop a digital currency because of China’s experience with bitcoin. China is the world’s largest market for bitcoin because the cryptocurrency allows the country’s residents to easily bypass its’ rigid currency controls.

The central bankers apparently hope that issuing their own cryptocurrency will give them some control over the situation. Some control is better than no control which is what they have right now.

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Market Insanity

India Moves to Kill Cash

This marks a paradigm shift in India’s economy because it is essentially an effort to force Indians to adopt the kind of electronic currency already widely used in the United States and Europe. The bills withdrawn were the largest denomination currencies issued in India.

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