- A central Asian replacement is planned to be a new super-currency used for cross-border payments, based on an index of a basket of commodities and currencies of the participating nations. Including currencies is a mistake, but otherwise the proposition has merit.
- This article explains why and how a properly constructed scheme would work. I demonstrate why it could act as a de facto gold standard. READ MORE
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