That's the title of a paper I'm writing for this year's Cato Monetary Conference (the subtitle is "How the Federal Reserve Misrepresents Monetary History"). For it, I'd be very grateful to anyone who can point me to examples (the more egregious the better) of untrue or misleading statements regarding U.S. monetary history in general, and the Fed's performance in particular, in official Fed publications or in lectures and speeches by Federal Reserve officials.
Operation Twist-the-Truth

by George Selginon
About George Selgin
George Selgin is a senior fellow and director emeritus of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Georgia. His research covers a broad range of topics within the field of monetary economics, including monetary...