Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
Time Bomb: How Uninsured Stablecoins and Crypto Derivatives Threaten Financial and Economic Stability
The GENIUS Act is a disastrous law that poses grave and unacceptable threats to our financial and economic future. Congress must remove those threats by (1) repealing the GENIUS Act and passing legislation that requires all stablecoin providers to be FDIC-insured banks, and (2) adopting legislation that requires all crypto derivatives to comply with the rules governing non-digital derivatives under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Jim Chanos on Crypto, AI, and Casino Capitalism
The famed short-seller reminds us that technology might advance, but we’re still a pretty predictable bunch of apes.
Uneven Development Without Social Relations—The Trouble with Nievas and Piketty’s Unequal Exchange
Why do market-centric fixes for “unequal exchange” fall short? Sidelining social relations and production power turns colonialism into a pricing problem—and hides the mechanisms that keep uneven development in place.