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The New Deal and Recovery, Part 14: Fear Itself, Concluded

George Selgin/May 5, 2021May 7, 2021 /Leave a comment

(This post completes my three-part discussion of the "regime uncertainty" hypothesis, according to which the New Deal hampered recovery by causing businessmen to fear policy changes that might render their investments unprofitable. Links to the...

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 13: Fear Itself, Continued

George Selgin/April 30, 2021May 6, 2021 /2 Comments

Carola Binder on Technopopulism and Central Banks

Nicholas Anthony/April 29, 2021April 28, 2021 /2 Comments

Technopopulism and Central Banks (CMFA Working Paper No. 004)

The CMFA Working Paper Series/April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 /Leave a comment

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 12: Fear Itself

George Selgin/April 14, 2021May 5, 2021 /4 Comments

Money & Politics

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 14: Fear Itself, Concluded

George Selgin/May 5, 2021May 7, 2021 /Leave a comment

(This post completes my three-part discussion of the "regime uncertainty" hypothesis, according to which the New Deal hampered recovery by causing businessmen to fear policy changes that might render their investments unprofitable. Links to the...

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 13: Fear Itself, Continued

George Selgin/April 30, 2021May 6, 2021 /2 Comments

Carola Binder on Technopopulism and Central Banks

Nicholas Anthony/April 29, 2021April 28, 2021 /2 Comments

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 12: Fear Itself

George Selgin/April 14, 2021May 5, 2021 /4 Comments

Fiscal Dominance and Fed Complacency

James Dorn/April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 /5 Comments

The Fed & Central Banks

Carola Binder on Technopopulism and Central Banks

Nicholas Anthony/April 29, 2021April 28, 2021 /2 Comments

In her CMFA working paper, Carola Binder discusses a new approach for understanding why central bankers are pressured---by both politicians and the public---to deviate from their mandates. Further, Binder argues that this new approach “strengthens...

Fiscal Dominance and Fed Complacency

James Dorn/April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 /5 Comments

Ron Paul and our Big, Fat Fed

George Selgin/March 13, 2021March 14, 2021 /11 Comments

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 11: The Roosevelt Recession, Continued

George Selgin/March 2, 2021May 5, 2021 /6 Comments

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 10: The Roosevelt Recession

George Selgin/February 4, 2021May 5, 2021 /1 Comment

Monetary Policy Primer

A Monetary Policy Primer, Part 12: Monetary Alternatives

George Selgin/October 31, 2017February 28, 2019 /28 Comments

This primer is supposed to introduce readers to the workings of the present U.S. monetary system. So it's only natural that it should take established...

A Monetary Policy Primer, Part 11: Last-Resort Lending

George Selgin/August 8, 2017February 28, 2019 /16 Comments

A Monetary Policy Primer, Part 10: Discretion, or a Rule?

George Selgin/May 11, 2017February 28, 2019 /10 Comments

A Monetary Policy Primer, Part 9: Monetary Control, Now

George Selgin/January 10, 2017February 28, 2019 /30 Comments

A Monetary Policy Primer, Part 8: Money in the Latest Great Muddle

George Selgin/January 4, 2017September 19, 2020 /52 Comments

Financial Markets

Has Bitcoin Succeeded?

Larry White/December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 /19 Comments

The answer depends on what you mean. Succeeded at what? With the US dollar price of Bitcoin reaching an all-time high above $23,000 this month, and its market cap reaching an all-time high above $400...

Ending the Fed's Emergency Lending Facilities: Mnuchin v. Waters

James Dorn/December 10, 2020December 9, 2020 /1 Comment

The Wide World of ESG

Jennifer Schulp/December 3, 2020December 1, 2020 /1 Comment

Going Postal? Proposals for Post-Office Banking in 2020

Diego Zuluaga/October 16, 2020October 15, 2020 /1 Comment

Postal Savings: A Third-Class Remedy?

Diego Zuluaga/September 22, 2020September 21, 2020 /Leave a comment

Fiat Money

Has Bitcoin Succeeded?

Larry White/December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 /19 Comments

The answer depends on what you mean. Succeeded at what? With the US dollar price of Bitcoin reaching an all-time high above $23,000 this month, and its market cap reaching an all-time high above $400...

E Pluribus, Unum? Federal Reserve Provision of Retail Accounts

Diego Zuluaga/December 1, 2020November 30, 2020 /2 Comments

Is the Fed Getting Warmer?

George Selgin/September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 /11 Comments

Dollarization for Lebanon

Larry White/July 30, 2020July 29, 2020 /2 Comments

Where Have All the Coins Gone?

Will Luther/July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 /13 Comments

Digital Money

Has Bitcoin Succeeded?

Larry White/December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 /19 Comments

The answer depends on what you mean. Succeeded at what? With the US dollar price of Bitcoin reaching an all-time high above $23,000 this month, and its market cap reaching an all-time high above $400...

Should the U.S. Government Create a Token-Based Digital Dollar?

Larry White/June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 /1 Comment

Libra's Star May Rise Again

Diego Zuluaga/April 16, 2020 /1 Comment

The Peirce Safe Harbor Could Be Transformative

Diego Zuluaga/February 12, 2020March 12, 2020 /Leave a comment

Robert Shiller on Bitcoin and Bimetallism

Larry White/February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 /2 Comments

Commodity Money

Lawrence White on Private Gold Mints

George Selgin/March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 /8 Comments

Every hoary myth about the private market's unfitness to supply means of exchange has roots that trace back to the hoariest monetary platitude of all, namely, the claim that governments alone, whether republican or absolutist...

Has Bitcoin Succeeded?

Larry White/December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 /19 Comments

Modeling the Legend, or, the Trouble with Diamond and Dybvig: Part I

George Selgin/December 17, 2020December 30, 2020 /10 Comments

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 7: FDR and Gold

George Selgin/August 7, 2020May 5, 2021 /5 Comments

Where Have All the Coins Gone?

Will Luther/July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 /13 Comments

Free Banking

Joshua Greenberg on Antebellum Paper Money

George Selgin/March 31, 2021April 3, 2021 /7 Comments

Alerted by a tweet by him, I recently listened to a December 2020 C-SPAN talk, on "Paper Money in Antebellum America," by historian Joshua Greenberg, the author of Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for...

Modeling the Legend, or, the Trouble with Diamond and Dybvig: Part II

George Selgin/December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 /2 Comments

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 5: The Banking Crisis

George Selgin/July 18, 2020May 5, 2021 /10 Comments

In Memoriam R.H.T.

George Selgin/May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 /7 Comments

Friday Flashback: Fedophilia

George Selgin/January 17, 2020February 14, 2020 /17 Comments

Currency Boards

Dollarization for Lebanon

Larry White/July 30, 2020July 29, 2020 /2 Comments

“The Lights Go Out in Lebanon as Financial Collapse Accelerates,” declared a recent headline in The Washington Post. The headline refers specifically to worsening power outages but more generally to Lebanon’s ongoing “economic implosion.” This...

Fed Policy: A Shadow Review—New Issue of the Cato Journal

Amanda Griffiths/June 20, 2020June 19, 2020 /Leave a comment

When the Fed Tried to Save Main Street

George Selgin/March 30, 2020April 6, 2020 /2 Comments

Handouts, Helicopters, Hong Kong Dollars, and Hogwash

George Selgin/February 26, 2020March 3, 2020 /18 Comments

Inside Cato's 37th Annual Monetary Conference: A Shadow Review of Fed Policy

Amanda Griffiths/December 19, 2019January 2, 2020 /1 Comment

Inflation & Deflation

Carola Binder on Technopopulism and Central Banks

Nicholas Anthony/April 29, 2021April 28, 2021 /2 Comments

In her CMFA working paper, Carola Binder discusses a new approach for understanding why central bankers are pressured---by both politicians and the public---to deviate from their mandates. Further, Binder argues that this new approach “strengthens...

Fiscal Dominance and Fed Complacency

James Dorn/April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 /5 Comments

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 10: The Roosevelt Recession

George Selgin/February 4, 2021May 5, 2021 /1 Comment

The Fed's Policy Drift

James Dorn/September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 /Leave a comment

The Fed's New Policy Rule: Taylor v. Semi-Wicksell

Hu McCulloch/September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 /6 Comments

Economic Thought

Carola Binder on Technopopulism and Central Banks

Nicholas Anthony/April 29, 2021April 28, 2021 /2 Comments

In her CMFA working paper, Carola Binder discusses a new approach for understanding why central bankers are pressured---by both politicians and the public---to deviate from their mandates. Further, Binder argues that this new approach “strengthens...

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 12: Fear Itself

George Selgin/April 14, 2021May 5, 2021 /4 Comments

Fiscal Dominance and Fed Complacency

James Dorn/April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 /5 Comments

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 9: The AAA

George Selgin/January 11, 2021May 5, 2021 /1 Comment

Modeling the Legend, or, the Trouble with Diamond and Dybvig: Part II

George Selgin/December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 /2 Comments

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Welcome to Alt-M, a community devoted to exploring and promoting ideas for an alternative monetary future. Our goal is to reveal the shortcomings of today's centralized, bureaucratic, and discretionary monetary arrangements, and to bring serious consideration of real alternatives to the center stage of current monetary and financial reform debates.