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e-gold Founder launches Better Money blog

The Better Money blog is about money. The thesis is that money needs to be, and can be, done better. It describes a system, informed by critical analysis of historic and contemporary monetary regimes, and designed to eliminate embedded flaws and resolve contradictions that have tended to undermine all antecedent monetary systems. Better Money is not a call for monetary reform, and its implementation does not require any sort of consensus to proceed. Read more →

A New Beginning

November 2008 will mark the 12th anniversary of e-gold's debut as an alternative global payment system enabling Users - individuals or businesses - to receive payment in gold at extremely low cost and without risk of the sort of payment... Read more →

Set It and Forget It - Harnessing Collective Wisdom to Achieve Monetary Stability

Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, in his keynote address this week at the Cato Institute 25th Annual Monetary Conference further elaborated his intention to increase the transparency and collegiality of the analytical processes that inform Fed monetary policy.... Read more →

SSNs In The Private Sector - Comment, Project No. P075414

In response to the Federal Trade Commission's solicitation for comments on the uses of Social Security Numbers in the Private Sector with the goal of reducing identity theft, e-gold submitted these comments on 5 September 2007. Read more →

deconstructing money, part 2

In Part 1 of this post I suggested that there is not an obligatory connection between strategies for maintaining price stability and the exchange value of the money used as a settlement medium. I insisted on using the term settlement... Read more →

deconstructing money, part 1

In my recent Better Money post I proposed that money that did not lose its exchange value over time... would generally be better than money that did. In response, Sameer Parekh asserted the benefit of stable value and pointed out... Read more →

The buck starts here. (So does e-gold.)

In an earlier post I made reference to the role of liability as it relates to monetary issuance. In this post I want to explain all that. To preview: money that is someone's liability - (potentially) good. Money that is... Read more →

Better Money

The trademarked slogan "Better Money" is displayed on the homepage of the e-gold site. As best I recall, I came up with that one myself. In making this claim my intent was (and is) to stimulate thinking and discourse along... Read more →

e-gold is...

Since this blog is going to be all about e-gold, a natural place to start is with a succinct definition of e-gold. I promise to offer a succinct definition... but I am not going to stop with the succinct version.... Read more →

Q&A with e-gold Founder

One of these days, hopefully soon, I'm planning to do a talk radio interview. In preparation I recently met with a radio journalist to familiarize her with e-gold. We decided to record our discussion... Read more →