Wednesday, March 17, 2021
George Levy joins Jim Blasingame to report on the effort by Miami leadership to become the first cryptocurrency city by moving toward offering their employees their compensation in Bitcoin. Plus, the introduction of non-fungible tokens.
George Levy joins Jim Blasingame to report on digital payment systems, which are digital currencies transferred on central controlled systems, while cyrptocurrency is transferred peer to peer, without a central authority.
George Levy joins Jim Blasingame to report on the continuing emergence of cryptocurrencies, including a new digital store of value called a non-fungible token, which allows the owner to sell access to an asset without losing it, like a song or painting.
Michael Friedson joins Jim Blasingame to report on how the pandemic has impacted the upcoming elections in Israel as that government paid $2 billion for 15 million vaccines to get every voter inoculated before they vote, meanwhile, the lockdown continues.
Michael Friedson joins Jim Blasingame to report on how the Biden/Harris administration is impacting the current and future relationships that are part of the successful Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump administration.
George Selgin joins Jim Blasingame to report on what goes on during an FOMC meeting, and why we no longer wonder what the Fed will announce following a two-day meeting.
George Selgin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what Alt M means, and why your monetary future will look increasingly different from what you know, plus why we should expect U.S. dollar denominated private cryptocurrencies to emerge.
George Selgin joins Jim Blasingame to report on the possibility of the Fed using their charter to expand their portfolio outside of general sovereign monetary support into funding of specific projects, and the many troubling implications thereof.