Out of Control
Our latest print extra explores the global battle over money and assets between dictators and dissidents.
This edition, created in partnership with the Human Rights Foundation, features conversations—with Félix Maradiaga, Farida Nabourema, Roger Huang, and Justin Callais—on what financial repression is, how dissidents are using Bitcoin, why countries around the world are developing their own digital currencies, and what financial repression in the autocratic world has to do with financial freedom in democracies.
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Inside:
Introducing Out of Control
Introducing Out of Control. There are all kinds of ways life might conspire to make other people’s experiences difficult for you to imagine. When I was a kid, my friends and I would spend hours at a time fighting off the Nazis who kept invading the abandoned forts of
J.J. Gould
Cash grab
What is financial repression? Félix Maradiaga on how autocratic regimes are using the global banking system, international law, and new technologies in an old struggle to suppress dissent and hold power.
Allison Braden
Untouchable
Why has Bitcoin become so popular with dissidents living in dictatorships? Farida Nabourema on what the emerging technology has in common with an old suitcase stuffed with cash.
Gustav Jönsson
House money
Why are countries around the world developing virtual legal tenders? Roger Huang on the origins, implementation, and implications of central bank digital currencies.
Roger Huang
Connections
What does financial repression in autocracies have to do with financial freedom in democracies? Justin Callais on human flourishing in the modern world.
Justin Callais