Isaac Newton Was the World’s Original Counterfeiter Cop

Here’s the story of how the famous physicist played detective to capture his era’s most notorious currency faker

That Money is Funny

Five of the world’s most unusual forms of currency

We Need to Radically Rethink GDP

Are our economies slowing, or are we just measuring the wrong things?

Your Money Explained in GIFs

If we’ve learned anything this month about the history and future of money, it’s that the subject is flat out…

When the Future Comes, Who’ll Get the Bill?

Introducing a month-long series about the future of our money

Made of Money: A Reading List

This month, as part of our Made of Money series looking at the future of money and nationhood, we’ve…

What We Can Learn About Happiness From Economics

Does money make you happy?

Every New Way to Pay Has Its Problems

And money’s design matters more than you think

Call for Pitches: The Future of Money

Borders define nationhood, but so do money and currency. While villages around the world once…

Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money

How to create new currency in failed states