Despite all the talk about the mobile revolution and its potential impact on transactions and banking, the only truly blockbuster success I’m aware of is Kenya’s M-Pesa. Much has been written about this service so I won’t blow this column repeating what’s out there. The latest numbers merit mention: 60 percent of the country’s adults use… Read more »
David Wolman
Few things are as fundamental to our everyday lives and yet so easily overlooked as money. Not overlooked, precisely, because it’s on our minds, usually in the form of anxiety about having enough. But when it comes to the history, machinations, and evolution of the perplexing technology known as money—who on Earth has time to… Read more »
