The Dial 4/9/24 The Dial 4/9/24

Editors’ Note

Issue 14: Money

Guido Alfani 4/2/24 Guido Alfani 4/2/24

Bankers! Listen to Your Medieval Forebears

With every new crisis, the animosity towards financiers grows. History offers sage advice.

Sebastián López Brach & Lucía Cholakian Herrera 3/28/24 Sebastián López Brach & Lucía Cholakian Herrera 3/28/24

The Argentinian president looks to dollarize the economy.

Christina Noriega 3/21/24 Christina Noriega 3/21/24

President Gustavo Petro has made it a priority to transform the narcotics trade. The question now is how.

Jakuta Alikavazovic (Tr. Daniel Levin Becker) 3/21/24 Jakuta Alikavazovic (Tr. Daniel Levin Becker) 3/21/24

“How would you go about stealing the Mona Lisa?”

Sofía Alvarez Jurado 3/19/24 Sofía Alvarez Jurado 3/19/24

Spain’s aging population is struggling with the digitalization of the financial system — and the far right is seizing the moment.

Danielle Mackey 3/12/24 Danielle Mackey 3/12/24

Seven years after El Salvador banned metal extraction, the bloody fight over mining appears poised to return.

Yun Ko-eun (Tr. Lizzie Buehler) 3/12/24 Yun Ko-eun (Tr. Lizzie Buehler) 3/12/24

“We dreamed that Iceland’s growth of a bit less than one centimeter per year would one day lead to an entire earth covered with Iceland.”

Paul Benjamin Osterlund 3/12/24 Paul Benjamin Osterlund 3/12/24

Turkey has expropriated ancestral lands to build “earthquake-proof” housing.