Overview: Bitcoin is digital money that works without needing banks and utilizes blockchain to secure transactions. The ...

On a special episode (first released on May 14) of The Excerpt podcast: There’s something to cold hard cash. You can hold it; you can smell it; it feels a certain way in your pocket. Earlier this year ...

The dollar’s security as the world’s reserve currency has been slipping for decades. Will the transition speed up in 2026?

One of the more intriguing financial trends that has gained popularity in recent years is the de-dollarization movement. De-dollarization is an effort by a growing number of countries to reduce the ...

Whether you want a strong U.S. dollar or a weaker U.S. dollar depends on where you stand. If you run a company that sells overseas, a weaker dollar helps you, because it makes your products cheaper ...

There is a huge amount of silliness around the dollar’s status as the world’s leading reserve currency. “Leading” is the key word in that sentence. There are several currencies that countries treat as ...

Using tools like forwards and options, currency-neutral funds hedge foreign-exchange risks. Investing in currency-neutral funds can protect against losses from unfavorable exchange-rate shifts.