Currency

The euro was introduced as an accounting currency on January 1, 1999, and as physical notes and coin...

On January 15, 2015, the Swiss National Bank unexpectedly removed the francs exchange rate cap again...

On October 31, 2008, an anonymous person or group called Satoshi Nakamoto published a 9 page paper t...

In July 1944, 730 delegates from 44 nations met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to design the postw...

The gradual reduction of silver content in Roman coins contributed to economic decline. The denarius...

Paper currency issued by the US government during the Civil War, so called because of the green ink ...

The Gold Standard Act formally placed the United States on the gold standard, fixing the dollar at 2...

The Bretton Woods Conference in July 1944 was formally called the United Nations Monetary and Financ...

Zimbabwe experienced the second worst hyperinflation in history in 2008. Annual inflation reached 89...

In 1923, Germany experienced devastating hyperinflation. The mark fell from 4.2 per dollar in 1914 t...

Venezuela experienced hyperinflation starting in 2016, peaking at an estimated 1.7 million percent i...

Hungary in 1946 experienced the worst hyperinflation in recorded history, surpassing even Zimbabwe. ...

On January 10, 2024, the SEC approved the first US spot Bitcoin ETFs. The approval came after a deca...

Special Drawing Rights were created by the IMF in 1969 as an international reserve asset. SDRs are n...

The Plaza Accord was an agreement in September 1985 by the G5 nations (US, UK, France, West Germany,...

On August 15, 1971, President Nixon ended the convertibility of the US dollar into gold, effectively...

In January 2000, Ecuador abandoned its currency, the sucre, and adopted the US dollar. The decision ...

In 1991, Argentina established a currency board pegging the peso to the US dollar at 1 to 1. The peg...