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Brookings’ Klein on Stablecoin’s Downsides, CBDC Myths and More Fed Cowbell

Banking with Interest

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Central Bank Digital Currency - What's the Point of Subsidizing It?

If I want to get a central bank digital currency, do I have it in my Fed account? If you can get that through Congress and through the Federal Reserve,  that would be quite a political accomplishment. Some of the big advocates of Fed accounts say we ought to subsidize it. And again, what's the point of that? What's the marginal value?

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