EconWithNick 19 hours ago

You shouldn't have to learn the money has changed on the evening news. That's why the @HRF CBDC Tracker is here. You can know what's happening and speak up before things change.

CBDC Tracker

A CBDC is a digital national currency. In the case of the United States, a CBDC would be a digital form of the U.S. dollar whereas, in Nigeria, the...

EconWithNick yesterday

Congress sent me follow-up questions after I testified against the Bank Secrecy Act. One side asked deep questions about how to reclaim financial privacy. The other side just wanted to know my racial and gender identity. *sigh* https://www.cato.org/testimony/questions-record-modernizing-bsa-financial-crime-21st-century

EconWithNick 3 days ago

I've now been to 17 countries in my quest to raise awareness about CBDCs and financial privacy. What conferences should I be speaking at next? I need to pump those numbers up!

EconWithNick 5 days ago

Nice.

EconWithNick 1 week ago

Always a joy to see the legend that is @paul keating View quoted note →

EconWithNick 1 week ago

I am in Prague with Gary Becker's "In Prague."

EconWithNick 1 week ago

Dobrý den from the depths of Prague! By no choice of my own, it seems it’s now a tradition that I end up crossing the central bank.

EconWithNick 1 week ago

Governments are increasingly recognizing that financial control is invisible control.

EconWithNick 2 weeks ago

Authoritarians are using CBDCs—programmable money that can be turned off in an instant. They are amassing vast networks of surveillance. And they are investing more money in control than ever. A powerful warning at the @HRF Oslo Freedom Forum

EconWithNick 2 weeks ago

A crucial reminder at the @HRF Oslo Freedom Forum. You can’t just dismantle dictatorships. You have to replace them.

EconWithNick 2 weeks ago

“I used my platform to call out the criminal government,” says Steven Kefas at the @HRF Oslo Freedom Forum.

EconWithNick 2 weeks ago

The @HRF Oslo Freedom Forum opens with a million dollar speaker. A million dollars because that’s the bounty the government put on her. But in reality, her impact is priceless.

EconWithNick 2 weeks ago

I have to admit. I really didn’t expect the support I’ve gotten for my testimony against the Bank Secrecy Act. Y’all really know how to make an old man shaking his fist at the clouds feel special.

EconWithNick 3 weeks ago

CBDC sales pitch of the century coming from the Central Bank of Ireland. /s File under "reinventing the wheel."

EconWithNick 3 weeks ago

FinCEN is busy telling banks how to comply with the law while it is actively breaking the law. https://www.cato.org/blog/reporting-fincens-suspicious-activity-2026-edition

EconWithNick 3 weeks ago

The Fourth Amendment does not expire with inflation. It does not pause at the border. And it does not bend to whichever crisis the government invokes this decade. It’s time for Americans to know that the Bank Secrecy Act is really the Bank Surveillance Act.

EconWithNick 3 weeks ago

@PUBKEY does bitcoin pizza day right.

EconWithNick 3 weeks ago

Did I hold up the Constitution to Congress? Yes. Did I reference the Grateful Dead? Also, yes.

EconWithNick 0 months ago

I'm testifying today. The Bank Secrecy Act has created a financial surveillance regime that violates our privacy, increases the cost of banking, and doesn't stop crime.

EconWithNick 1 month ago

Central bankers are cracking. Okay... maybe it's just a splinter. But still, this statement is note worthy given that most of the ECB gang acts like CBDCs are a gift from heaven.