Dernières de Michael J. Casey
A ‘Best of 2021′ Holiday Special: Haiti’s Transition Into Modern Finance
This week and next “Money Reimagined” revisits favorite episodes from 2021. This week’s pick was Sheila Warren’s: the May 21 episode on Haiti featuring guests Jerry Tardieu, a Haitian author, entrepreneur and politician representing Petion-Ville in the Chamber of Deputies, and Daniele Jean-Pierre, the co-founder and chief operating officer of Zimbali networks. The pair reviewed Haiti’s history to show how a shameful, century-long legacy of a slavery-era debt continues to be a burden for the country. The discussion then turned to what solutions might exist to create a system that empowers people rather than leaves them dependent on charity and foreign aid. It’s the kind of episode that reminds us why the ideas behind crypto and blockchain matter.
Miami and New York Explore What it Means to Become a ‘Crypto City’
Joining “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Matt Homer, former superintendent for research and innovation at the New York Department of Financial Services. The two walk through the expected crypto integrations coming to their cities and the anticipated challenges that come with introducing this new technology at the municipal level.
Another Cryptocurrency Hearing on Capitol Hill: This One Felt Different
The House Financial Services Committee Wednesday held an open discussion about stablecoins, financial inclusion and energy. Michael Casey and Sheila Warren sat down with Global Policy & Regulation Managing Editor Nikhilesh De to discuss their impressions of the hearing and whether the lawmakers seem to be warming up to crypto or at least understanding it better.
Communing With the Metaverse
This episode of “Money Reimagined” comes to you from Miami, where the annual Art Basel event spawned an explosion of sub-conferences associated with non-fungible tokens (NFT). Co-hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren interviewed Pierina Merino, the founder of FlickPlay, an app that combines real-world, camera-captured imagery with digital artifacts so users can create and place geo-located NFT collectibles. It’s best described as a merging of Pokémon GO with TikTok and NFTs.
New Money and Contemporary Capitalism With Brett King and Patrick Murck
With the advent of cryptocurrency and related technologies, and the failure of the existing monetary architecture to address inequities and avoid financial crises, one thing people tend to agree on is that our system of money needs an overhaul. But what form should it take? And who gets to decide? Joining Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are Brett King, author of six books and the founder of payment app Moven, and Patrick Murck, a research affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and president and chief legal officer of startup Transparent Financial Systems.