This is an opinion editorial by Craig Deutsch, organizer of Asheville Bitcoiners, designer of The Bitcoin Game and junior editor at Bitcoin Magazine. You may have seen or heard about people in Lebanon ...

Several prominent Chinese economists have called for loosening restrictions on the movement of money in and out of the ...

Russia has decided not to implement partial capital controls following speculation that the extreme measure was being considered to stem the falling ruble, the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti ...

Exchange controls are government restrictions on the purchase and sale of currencies, aiming to stabilize economies. Learn what they are, their purpose, and how companies navigate them.

While capital controls were the accepted economic orthodoxy of the 1950s and 1960s, they became distinctly heterodox and attracted the ire of the International Monetary Fund by the early-1990s. After ...

(Bloomberg) -- Russia’s government is reimposing tougher capital controls over the objections of the central bank, according to people familiar with the matter, acting to keep a closer grip on the ...

In the wake of the East Asian, Russian, and Brazilian currency crises of the 1990s, a growing chorus of observers and economists (for example, Radelet and Sachs 1998, and Stiglitz 2000) has argued ...