{"id":45438,"date":"2019-06-26T10:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T09:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=45438"},"modified":"2019-06-26T10:54:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T09:54:21","slug":"where-could-facebook-have-got-the-idea-for-libra-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/06\/26\/where-could-facebook-have-got-the-idea-for-libra-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where could Facebook have got the idea for Libra from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and colleague Prof Len Seabrooke reviewed my blog on Facebook and its planned new currency this morning and sent me this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10.45.01-550x800.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10.45.01-550x800.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10.45.01-206x300.png 206w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10.45.01-768x1117.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10.45.01-275x400.png 275w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10.45.01.png 1308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/Denationalisation of Money - Institute of Economic Affairs https:\/\/iea.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/...\/Denationalisation%20of%20Money.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get a copy here<\/a>. It was published by that friend of all things to do with economic freedom for a few, the Institute for Economic Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>To get a taste for what it says, note this from page 33:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/06\/26\/where-could-facebook-have-got-the-idea-for-libra-from\/screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10-52-32\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45441\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10.52.32-550x496.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10.52.32-550x496.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10.52.32-333x300.png 333w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10.52.32-768x692.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10.52.32-444x400.png 444w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot-2019-06-26-at-10.52.32.png 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>And now Facebook is delivering.<\/p>\n<p>And you wonder why I am worried?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and colleague Prof Len Seabrooke reviewed my blog on Facebook and its planned new currency this morning and sent me this: You can<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/06\/26\/where-could-facebook-have-got-the-idea-for-libra-from\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}