Yanis Varoufakis argues that, as Facebook's planned cryptocurrency unravels, it should be pressed into public service.| Project Syndicate
While he dismissed Bitcoin as a scam during his first White House stint, Trump has now definitively changed tack. He warmed to cryptocurrencies during his re-election campaign, and to complete his conversion, on 6 March he signed an executive order to set up a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a US Digital Asset Stockpile”.1| UnHerd
Neoliberalism was neither new nor particularly liberal when it prevailed 50 years ago. Its great advantage was its sharp deviation from classical liberalism. Even though it paid tribute to liberal thinkers, neoliberalism shared neither their method nor their concept of the market. Today, we are on the cusp of another, equally profound, ideological innovation. Unlike […]| Yanis Varoufakis