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Currency Boards, Money & Politics, Recommended Reading

A lot of data, and good-bye

Kurt Schuler/December 31, 2014December 19, 2015 /5 Comments

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…

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Financial Markets, Free Banking, The Fed & Central Banks

No, Virginia, there is no risk-free banking

Kurt Schuler/December 21, 2014December 19, 2015 /9 Comments

(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…

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Economic History, Free Banking, Recommended Reading

Edmund Burke a free banker? (highly speculative)

Kurt Schuler/December 19, 2014December 19, 2015 /3 Comments

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…

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Economic History, Free Banking, Money & Politics

Post Keynesian free banking

Kurt Schuler/December 14, 2014December 19, 2015 /11 Comments

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

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.

 

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