Space opera, beyond finance edition
FT Alphaville spent a lot of last week hanging out at Lift12, a Geneva-based technology conference exploring the social implications of new technologies. We were particularly drawn to the Beyond...
View ArticleM-euro, a lesson in money supply from Kenya
If Europe = yesterday, the stuff that’s going on in Kenya right could very well = the future. Here’s an extract from a speech by Njuguna Ndung’u, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, talking about...
View ArticleA new type of growth is emerging
Earlier in May FT Alphaville attended Ouisharefest in Paris, a conference dedicated to exploring and discussing the growth of the collaborative economy. The timing of the event coincided with the ECB...
View ArticleThe peer problem for peer-to-peer lenders [update]
A friend of FT Alphaville who works in the real world, far from finance, asked us what we think about putting money with peer-to-peer lenders. We advised him to buy gold-bitcoins instead, but it made...
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