Readers interested in monetary data should see a book-length working paper, just issued, called Currency Board Financial Statements, that I prepared with Nicholas Krus. It is the further fruit of the Digital Archive on Currency Boards, which Nick played the largest part in gathering. Spreadsheets that accompany…
(With apologies to the New York Sun of September 21, 1897.) Dear Free Banking— I am 18 years old. Some of my professors say there is a Santa Claus called "risk-free banking." Papa says, "If you see it in the Free Banking blog, it's so." Please tell…
The journalist and historian Rick Perlstein has a recent book called The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. A reviewer criticized the book, and Perlstein responded here. What piqued my interest was Perlstein's claim that "I first learned to distrust conservatives' own protestations…
According to a recent blog post on 538, "post Keynesian" is the phrase in economic research most indicative of "left-leaning" political views and "free banking" is the phrase most indicative of "right-leaning" views. (See also the
Forbes article here, worth reading. Larry White offered testimony in NotHaus's favor, if I recall correctly, and perhaps he will have some comment.