CBDCs could support a more stable economy — if banks run the show

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have become well-established as a major talking point in the academic mainstream and geopolitics — not to mention the crypto community and its rowdy public discourse on X. While national leaders and supranational financial institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have come to a broad consensus that CBDCs stand to provide great benefits, very little has been said detailing where CBDCs are best designed to provide support,…