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Year: 2013

Economic History, Money & Politics, The Fed & Central Banks

Just Say No to the JFK Fed Conspiracy

Bradley Jansen/November 19, 2013December 19, 2015 /5 Comments

President Kennedy was not assassinated for being anti-Fed.  I don't know how much more clearly that can be said.  His death on November 22nd, 1963 was a sad tragedy, but it had nothing to do with any stupid and baseless Executive Order silver certificate conspiracy. Baseless conspiracy…

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Recommended Reading, The Fed & Central Banks

Introduction to US Monetary Policy

Steve Horwitz/November 13, 2013December 19, 2015 /1 Comment

I think I posted this when it came out earlier this year, but if not, here's a study I did for Mercatus that is intended as an introduction to US monetary policy, including some history, some theory, some policy, and some discussion of alternative institutional arrangements.  I…

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Economic Thought, Money & Politics

An Opinion of No Redeeming Value

George Selgin/November 11, 2013January 11, 2017 /2 Comments

An "idiot savant" is, according to my Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, "a mentally defective person who exhibits exceptional skill or brilliance in some limited field." So what's the term for an otherwise intelligent person who exhibits exceptional idiocy in some limited field? Well, I don't know the…

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Free Banking

World’s biggest bar room

Kurt Schuler/November 10, 2013December 19, 2015 /31 Comments

Commenters on many blogs, this one included, often seem to labor under the mistaken notion that they are going to change everyone’s mind. Even leaving aside that on controversial subjects, many comments are mere tired sarcasm and tedious ranting, there are deeper reasons why you will not…

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MacLeod and Keynes on India

Kurt Schuler/November 6, 2013December 19, 2015 /Leave a comment

A few posts ago I briefly mentioned the history of free banking in India and how it ended. Here is an old online book that discusses banking in the free banking period, though it focuses on the three largest banks, known as the presidency banks, and has…

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