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JP Koning

@jpkoning.bsky.social
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monetary economics|history of money|central banking|financial privacy|payments|gold|financial inclusion|cryptocurrency|monetary law|financial crime I write at www.moneyness.ca

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John Carreyrou @johncarreyrou.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...
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My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Huge shift in American views of Israel 2022: 55% view Israel favorably, 42% unfavorably 2026: 37% view Israel favorably, 60% unfavorable Generational divide hits both parties: 57% of *Republicans under 50* are negative on Israel via Pew Research Center poll: www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/u...
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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Vance's endorsement of Orban is an endorsement of Putin. It's not just that Trump's America is no longer our ally, it is rapidly becoming our enemy
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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Bitcoin has fallen more than 3% today, to below $69,000. Bloomberg tells us crypto's broader selloff since the start of the war calls into question crypto's "ability to act as a safe haven amid times of crisis." Did we really need more confirmation of that? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Outgoing Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic signals greater concern about Fed independence than the more anodyne statements typically offered by his colleagues when the subject comes up He says there's an ongoing threat and the outcome is genuinely uncertain www.atlantafed.org/news-and-eve...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
In a normal world, "US treasury secretary endorses American annexation of Canadian territory" should be front page news
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Meanwhile, in Canada …
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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Nothing matters
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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a woman says " so you admit it " in a netflix ad
ALT: a woman says " so you admit it " in a netflix ad
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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 18/11/2025
Money given to influence the conduct of a person in a position of trust you say?
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Synonyms of bribe >
1 : money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust police officers accused of taking bribes
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: something that serves to induce or influence
offered the kid a bribe to finish his homework
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The same people who repeatedly insisted that tariffs won't raise prices.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I’m not exaggerating when I say the US government is acting like an abusive ex towards Canada. Switching between “you suck, I don’t need you” and “you would be nothing without me, don’t you dare talk to anyone else”.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Hey, he’s only the president, how is he supposed to know who he is pardoning
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Protos @protos.com · 21/10/2025
CHART: President Trump’s memecoin is doing poorly protos.com/chart-presid...
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CHART: President Trump's memecoin is doing poorly
Donald Trump's memecoin, $TRUMP, has performed very poorly since launch, falling approximately 86% from its peak.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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Suffolk Detectorist @sdetectorist.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The penny was the main unit of currency for around 500 years, until the recoinage of Edward I with the introduction of the groat. Later a half groat, along with several gold denominations, was introduced by Edward III Groat, halfgroat, penny, halfpenny and farthing of Eddy III
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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
NEW: How do you think the US distributes social security benefits to people without bank accounts? If you answered “badly,” you’re correct. Yizhu Wang & I took a look at the latest fumbles in Treasury’s efforts to improve the program, & what’s likely to happen next www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Lifeline for Millions of Americans Becomes Hot Potato for Banks
The US government has begun phasing out paper checks for unbanked Americans who receive federal benefits, adding to the ranks of millions who rely on Direct Express prepaid cards. The problem: that pr...
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MagBeb @magbebronne.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Really interesting take on why Montreal is so unique in terms of human-scale urbanism. Consider this when voting in a month?
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
So google maps updated some satellite footage, here’s one single Ukrainian village. One out of thousands
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Niko Jaakkola @nikoecon.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This is an excellent & worrying interview w/ @petercontibrown.bsky.social. Fed independence is gone the day that Lisa Cook's 'firing' is un-stayed by a court; and once it is gone, it will not be coming back anytime soon, likely not before some inflation disaster hits. Everyone loses. Great job, USA.
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Fed independence is a question of power. As with many institutions today, President Trump is trying to reduce the Fed’s power and increase his own. That dramatic backdrop makes today’s Senate hearing on Stephen Miran for Fed Governor anything but normal. stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/who-will-b...
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Who will be in charge of interest rates?
Fed independence is a question of power.
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Michael J Armstrong @profmjarmstrong.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Brown‑Forman's "net sales in developed international markets dropped eight per cent" due to "geopolitical uncertainty". Sales fell 62% in Canada, 16% in the UK, & 10% in Germany. 🍷 #EconSky www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Company behind Jack Daniel's says Canadian boycott is 'significant' as sales drop 62% | CBC News
The parent company of American alcohol producers such as Jack Daniel's whisky and Woodford Reserve bourbon says sales to Canada dropped 62 per cent during the latest fiscal quarter compared to a year ...
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Canada is cursed in having mostly the same vehicle standards as the US, and while some styles (like large SUVs) aren’t as common here yet, I worry that it’s only a matter of time. Europe should fight this hard — and any other similar concessions.
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The Fed is not good at talking to citizens. Its communications culture is aimed at markets, which means it knows how to give coded, cautious hints that leave room for negotiation. That means there's little will and no experience with strong, affirmative signals in response to wanton norm-burning.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Tariff inflation effects are just getting started. (via Apollo)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2025
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 24/08/2025
This is going to do wonders for the Village, in that it will actually make it a village #Montreal’s pedestrian streets project is a resounding success, chiefly because it’s as good for residents as it is for businesses Canadian cities: take note—this is how you rejuvenate post-pandemic #cdnpoli
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Antonio Fatas @antoniofatas.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The pressure on the independence of the US Federal Reserve is as bad as some of us had feared. I would love to understand what motivates this optimistic perspective from Raghuram Rajan
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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
A reminder: Dr. Cook's mortgages are not the real issue. The threat to US macro stability is the clear intention of the Trump Admin to influence the composition of the FOMC in defiance of the structures designed to insulate the institution from such influence. Thank you for coming to my TED talk
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Brett Scott @brettscott.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A typical financial market has *fundamental* traders who watch the world and *technical* traders who watch other traders. A striking feature of the Bitcoin market is the almost total absence of the former. This has increasingly serious implications for all of us www.asomo.co/p/the-whale-...
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The Whale of Mass Destruction
How a fundamental weakness in Bitcoin might (technically) crash our economy
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
“This is a new attempt of the administration to gain more control over the Fed,” said Claudia Sahm, “They’re pulling as many different levers as they can find to get that control.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Aims to Win Majority on Fed Board With Attempt to Oust Lisa Cook
President Donald Trump’s campaign to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, if successful, would give him the opportunity to exert more influence over the US central bank by securing a majority on i...
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Crypto is not a socially useful industry. The most innocent side of it is a form of gambling. UK could make money by hosting and facilitating it, but it does so at the expense of global society and should no more do this than it should help illicit arms sales.
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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Fascinating story from Duncan Miriri, for which I had the pleasure of reporting. Africa is building its own payments system, moving from the insanely expensive and slow process of settling transactions in USD. Trouble is, to Trump it's just de-dollarisation. BAD! www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Under shadow of Trump warning, Africa pioneers non-dollar payments systems
Africa's push for local currency payments systems - once little more than an aspiration - is finally making concrete gains, bringing the promise of less costly trade to a continent long hobbled by resource-sapping dollar transactions.
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The corruption in the US is just boundless www.ft.com/content/13a6...
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Crypto group Tron to go public after US pauses probe into billionaire founder
Deal involving Justin Sun’s digital asset venture orchestrated by investment bank linked to Trump’s sons
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
There’s a real possibility that basically every major company launches a stablecoin and it becomes so annoying that people just keep using cash
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Sam Ro @tker.co · 05/06/2025
"the number of employees at peak for companies that have, at some point since the 1950s, been the largest in the U.S." - DB
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
US stocks vs. rest of the world, so far this year. 😞 (via @yardeniresearch.bsky.social)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) - US Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and will stop producing the coin when those run out.
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 22/05/2025
Okay. I’ll play this game. How? How exactly is this any better news for people in poverty than, say, giving them more access to lottery tickets? I want Tim Scott to tell me, someone who’s covered crypto for eight years, precisely what crypto does for poor people.
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JP Koning @jpkoning.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The U.S. Mint still hasn't stopped producing pennies. It minted 130 million of them in April.
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JP Koning @jpkoning.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The risk that Trump suddenly cuts off Europe's access to the Visa and MasterCard networks as a "pressure tactic" is something that Finland's central bank is preparing for: www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A confidently told caper of a globe-trotting bank robber’s rise and fall, with just the right number of allusions to “Heat” peppered in? Click. @dvnjr.bsky.social & @jacobfeldman.bsky.social's favorite by Malcolm Johnston for @torontolifemag.bsky.social torontolife.com/deep-dives/t...
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Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber - Toronto Life
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a...
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The 90-day pause on China tariffs is the largest reduction in tariffs since Trump took office, by far, but it still leaves tariffs significantly higher than they were on April 2nd and eight times as high as before he took office
a timeline of Trump's 2nd-term tariffs, which go from roughly 2.5% to 13% by march, fall back to 7%, rise to 10%, rise to 15%, rise to 28%, sink to 25%, rise to 26%, then fall to 16%
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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I would just like to say that this has been exhausting
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Powerful
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My take on today’s UK-US trade deal. The UK is a small weak country. It does what small weak countries do, which is to escape the bully, to pay the Dane-geld. Standing up for the multilateral rules-based trading system will have to be left for others.
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Britain’s trade deal with Trump may not be good news for the world
[FREE TO READ] Starmer’s choice undermines multilateralism and poses risks to the UK
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
What a humiliating admission. The prime minster seems to have been bounced into the premature announcement of an incomplete one-sided deal to satisfy Trump’s propaganda demands
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