- July 22, 2026
BBC Radio 4 – A History of the World in 100 Objects, The Threshold of the Modern World (1375-1550 AD), Ming banknote
By Helen Wang, curator, British Museum The origins of paper money lie in the ‘flying cash’ of Tang dynasty China (early ninth century AD).
Revealed: New pound notes are three times as clean as the old ones | UK | News
Boffins discovered that less bacteria sticks to polymer notes – which were introduced in September 2016 – after spending ten years testing our money. The
Public outrage over Chinese man placing hell money into Japanese temple donation box
TOKYO: A Chinese man who placed joss paper into a fortune-drawing money collection box at Japan’s Sensoji Temple has sparked online outrage and criticism of
Elon Musk’s vision of a post-work, post-money society
Welcome back to the latest episode of “The Future of Automotive” on CBT News, where we put recent automotive and mobility news into the context
Funds Rushing into Commodities
Saxo Bank publishes two weekly Commitment of Traders reports (COT) covering leveraged fund positions in commodities, bonds and stock index futures. For IMM currency futures
What is a fiat currency?
Pros and cons of a fiat currency Pros of a fiat currency Since fiat money is not a scarce or fixed resource – like gold
Why oil continues to slump while other commodities rally
Oil may be down 13% this year, but commodities, as a whole, are climbing. Hussein Allidina, Managing Director and Head of Commodities at TD Asset
Why work will be optional and money irrelevant in 10 to 20 years – Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has predicted that technological advancements will make work optional and money irrelevant by 2035 or 2045. Speaking at the United States-Saudi
The inevitable rise of digital currency
Hardly a week goes by without many Americans receiving some type of notification of the pending doom of the American dollar — if not the end
We need to return to ‘real’ money to solve economic crisis
Dominic co-wrote a feature documentary about the global financial crisis, ‘The Four Horsemen’ and his most recent short film, ‘Debt Bomb’, went viral with 250,000