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Currencies and Confidence

December 1, 2022 | Commentary

  • Currencies are a curious creation that depend entirely upon the trust and confidence a population places in them.
  • Sound currencies ebb and flow in value against each other reflecting shifting macroeconomic fortunes, but they retain value through time because users believe in their ongoing ability to facilitate transactions and be a reliable store of value.
  • When governments destroy that trust by creating too much currency relative to the economy’s growth, inflation ensues. Taken to extremes, hyperinflation can completely destroy the value of a previously widely accepted currency.
  • Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were supposed to eliminate those risks, but as recent events have shown the ecosystem around them has created many challenges to trust and confidence. Until blockchain currencies are created and backed by central banks, this new technology may fall well short of its potential to improve the efficiency of our global financial network.

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