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Year: 2014

Commodity Money, Free Banking, Money & Politics

Free Banking and the Dollar

George Selgin/December 12, 2014December 19, 2015 /26 Comments

I've been getting some flak lately from hard-core free market types for occasionally saying some nice things about NGDP targeting, and especially for suggesting, in the course of a recent Cato forum contribution, that we might improve upon the present U.S. arrangement by replacing the FOMC with…

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Events, Fiat Money, Money & Politics

Bernard von NotHaus case

Kurt Schuler/December 11, 2014December 19, 2015 /Leave a comment

Forbes article here, worth reading. Larry White offered testimony in NotHaus's favor, if I recall correctly, and perhaps he will have some comment.

Economic History, Free Banking, The Fed & Central Banks

Two belated anniversaries

Kurt Schuler/December 11, 2014December 19, 2015 /Leave a comment

The centenary of the opening of the Federal Reserve System was November 16, 1914. The Federal Reserve Act was passed in December 1913 but the organization took nearly a year to open. Here is the Federal Reserve page on the event. Since it was not previously mentioned…

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Economic History, Financial Markets, The Fed & Central Banks

A 1920-21 Recovery Myth

George Selgin/December 4, 2014December 18, 2016 /18 Comments

The Forgotten Depression, Jim Grant's excellent book about the 1920-21 downturn and the recovery that followed, has generated a burst of critical commentary from persons anxious to reject the principal conclusion Grant draws from that episode. That conclusion, in brief, is that the U.S. was able to…

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Events, Inflation & Deflation, Money & Politics

Defending dollarization in Ecuador

Larry White/December 4, 2014December 19, 2015 /2 Comments

I visited Quito and Guayaquil in Ecuador last month to speak at conferences celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of official dollarization. The conference in Quito was sponsored by the Universidad de San Francisco de Quito, headed by Dr. Santiago Gangotena; in Guayaquil by the think tank IEEP which…

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