Why do different countries use different currencies? There’s the U.S. dollar, the Mexican peso and Japanese yen, just to name a few. This week, we’ll explain why so many countries decided to ...

The above infographic documents the history of currency in 10 different countries of significance. There are some interesting lessons to be learned from this lengthy and often tumultuous history.

There’s more to money than just the dollar. Most people have no idea just how many different currencies there are in the world, where they’re used, and what they’re called. We often forget ...

Countries and Currencies of the World: There are more than 200 countries in the world, and each country uses a different currency. The most popular currencies in the world are the dollar ...

Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. A fifth of global oil trade this year was settled in currencies different from the U.S ...

Nevertheless, countries generally have maintained their own currencies. The paper presents a model where agents have heterogeneous preferences—that are private information—over goods of different ...