A New System

The Ugly Side of CBDC

Faster stimulus, but at what cost?

Justin Honse
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
12 min readNov 3, 2020

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Two green hanging street signs, one labeled “Trust” and the other labeled “Mistrust” with arrows pointing opposite directions
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

In recent weeks, there’s been a sharp uptick in the number of headlines about Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC’s). In reading those articles you might see one or two of the potential downsides of CBDC’s mentioned — but I’ve read the white papers and the research papers and I think it’s important to air out all of the

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