Matt JohnstonWaiting for InflationThe Federal Reserve has turned to the money printer in the time of COVID-19. Will it cause inflation?20 min read·Jun 29, 2020--1--1
Matt JohnstoninLaunch SchoolTowards a Conceptual Model of Object Oriented ProgrammingRuby and the Problem of “the One and the Many”19 min read·Jan 19, 2020--4--4
Matt JohnstonYou Can’t Eat Cash: Adam Smith & Alan Greenspan on Real Wealth“The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it…7 min read·May 1, 2019--1--1
Matt JohnstoninCoinmonksGame of Transformations: the Liquidity Version“The pretence that the illiquid real assets of an economy — the factories, capital equipment, houses and offices — can suddenly be…15 min read·Apr 21, 2018----
Matt JohnstoninCoinmonksBanking on a Fiction in (it’s) a Wonderful Life“The essence of financial distress is loss of confidence.”13 min read·Mar 10, 2018----
Matt JohnstoninCoinmonksRevisiting the Lehman Brothers CollapseThe Business of Banking and its Inherent Crises12 min read·Feb 1, 2018----
Matt JohnstoninCoinmonksCanadian Banks Create Money, tooApparently, a lot of people don’t seem to know how money is created, and some of these are arguably people who should know. As much as 85%…13 min read·Dec 17, 2017--4--4