Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1789, at the start of the French Revolution, a paper form of government bond was issued, which rapidly lost its value. Seven ...

And history shows us that we should be wary of the idea that currency systems always change for the better, following some sort of natural evolutionary path. In fact, new currency systems don't always ...

University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The confusion and commotion over cryptocurrency often reminds me of the 19th-century German drama Faust. In ...