The Crisis from Crypto

In this second miniseries of Season 2, "Global Finance", we're wrestling with the strangeness of living in a world that aspires to a level of global integration our current systems can't support - and maybe don't want to. The rise of cryptocurrency has many stories attached to it: some about wanting to change the world, some about exploiting the world in new ways. In this episode, we reflect on the deeper story: the fact that we're hungry for alternative financial relationships in the first place. How else can we answer that underlying need for global reform?

REFERENCES

Bains, Parma. "Regulating the Crypto Ecosystem: The Case of Stablecoins and Arrangements", FinTech Notes, IMF. 2022.