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Jun 25, 2025

Connections

What does financial repression in autocracies have to do with financial freedom in democracies? Justin Callais on human flourishing in the modern world.

Jun 23, 2025

House money

Why are countries around the world developing virtual legal tenders? Roger Huang on the origins, implementation, and implications of central bank digital currencies.

Jun 19, 2025

Untouchable

Why has Bitcoin become so popular with dissidents living in dictatorships? Farida Nabourema on what the emerging technology has in common with an old suitcase stuffed with cash.

Jun 19, 2025

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #77

We begin this week in El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele’s ruling party officially passed a sweeping “foreign agents” law.

Jun 18, 2025

Cash Grab

What is financial repression? Félix Maradiaga on how autocratic regimes are using the global banking system, international law, and new technologies in an old struggle to suppress dissent and hold power.

Jun 12, 2025

HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #76

This week, we begin in Kenya, where police detained Rose Njeri, a software developer and mother of two, for building a website that enables Kenyans to flag causes and email parliament concerning an unpopular tax bill that threatens to raise the cost of living in an already inflation-sticky economy.

Jun 6, 2025

Bitcoin Development Fund 5 year Report

The Bitcoin Development Fund 5 Year Report marks five years of impact through the Bitcoin Development Fund (BDF), which has awarded over $8.5 million in BTC to nearly 300 projects across 62 countries.

Jun 4, 2025

Remembering the Tiananmen Square massacre

Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, when the Chinese regime unleashed tanks and armed troops to crush a peaceful student movement demanding freedom and democracy. The brutal crackdown shocked the world and continues to cast a long shadow over China’s appalling human rights record.

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