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Wide World of ESG: Understanding Investor Demand

Jennifer Schulp/July 28, 2021July 27, 2021 /1 Comment

As we continue to span the globe to bring the constant variety of ESG topics, I’m reminded of my favorite part of watching live sports: being part of a crowd. The energy inside the stadium...

A Primer on Inflation

James Dorn/July 22, 2021July 21, 2021 /20 Comments

The Fable of the Cats

George Selgin/July 6, 2021July 16, 2021 /12 Comments

Should We Fear Stablecoins?

Larry White/June 24, 2021July 26, 2021 /8 Comments

The Bitcoin Law: Nayib Bukele's Counterfeit Free Choice in Currency

George Selgin/June 17, 2021July 17, 2021 /9 Comments

Wide World of ESG: Understanding Investor Demand

Jennifer Schulp/July 28, 2021July 27, 2021 /1 Comment

As we continue to span the globe to bring the constant variety of ESG topics, I’m reminded of my favorite part of watching live sports: being part of a crowd. The energy inside the stadium...

A Primer on Inflation

James Dorn/July 22, 2021July 21, 2021 /20 Comments

The Fable of the Cats

George Selgin/July 6, 2021July 16, 2021 /12 Comments

The Bitcoin Law: Nayib Bukele's Counterfeit Free Choice in Currency

George Selgin/June 17, 2021July 17, 2021 /9 Comments

How U.S. Government Paper Currency Began, and How Private Banknotes Ended

Larry White/May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 /6 Comments

A Primer on Inflation

James Dorn/July 22, 2021July 21, 2021 /20 Comments

Everyone is talking about inflation, but what is it? Why does it matter? What causes it? And what can the Federal Reserve do about it? This primer will address those questions with the goal of...

The Bitcoin Law: Nayib Bukele's Counterfeit Free Choice in Currency

George Selgin/June 17, 2021July 17, 2021 /9 Comments

Digital Currency: Risk or Promise?—New Issue of the Cato Journal

James Dorn/May 13, 2021May 12, 2021 /2 Comments

Carola Binder on Technopopulism and Central Banks

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

Fiscal Dominance and Fed Complacency

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

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 /54 Comments

Wide World of ESG: Understanding Investor Demand

Jennifer Schulp/July 28, 2021July 27, 2021 /1 Comment

As we continue to span the globe to bring the constant variety of ESG topics, I’m reminded of my favorite part of watching live sports: being part of a crowd. The energy inside the stadium...

A Primer on Inflation

James Dorn/July 22, 2021July 21, 2021 /20 Comments

Has Bitcoin Succeeded?

Larry White/December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 /21 Comments

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

The Bitcoin Law: Nayib Bukele's Counterfeit Free Choice in Currency

George Selgin/June 17, 2021July 17, 2021 /9 Comments

“Why should we not let people use freely what money they want to use? [They] ought to have the right to decide whether they want to buy or sell for francs, pounds, dollars, D-marks, or...

How U.S. Government Paper Currency Began, and How Private Banknotes Ended

Larry White/May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 /6 Comments

Digital Currency: Risk or Promise?—New Issue of the Cato Journal

James Dorn/May 13, 2021May 12, 2021 /2 Comments

Has Bitcoin Succeeded?

Larry White/December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 /21 Comments

E Pluribus, Unum? Federal Reserve Provision of Retail Accounts

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

The Fable of the Cats

George Selgin/July 6, 2021July 16, 2021 /12 Comments

The comparison has by now been made so often that it may qualify as a platitude. I mean that between stablecoin issuers and "wildcat" banks, the fly-by-night scams that supposedly flooded the antebellum United States...

Should We Fear Stablecoins?

Larry White/June 24, 2021July 26, 2021 /8 Comments

The Bitcoin Law: Nayib Bukele's Counterfeit Free Choice in Currency

George Selgin/June 17, 2021July 17, 2021 /9 Comments

Has Bitcoin Succeeded?

Larry White/December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 /21 Comments

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

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

Commodity Money

How U.S. Government Paper Currency Began, and How Private Banknotes Ended

Larry White/May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 /6 Comments

A couple months ago, in arguing that “The Fed should give everyone a bank account,” journalist Matt Yglesias cited what he took to be an instructive precedent: “Once upon a time, governments didn’t issue paper...

Digital Currency: Risk or Promise?—New Issue of the Cato Journal

James Dorn/May 13, 2021May 12, 2021 /2 Comments

Lawrence White on Private Gold Mints

George Selgin/March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 /9 Comments

Has Bitcoin Succeeded?

Larry White/December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 /21 Comments

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

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

Free Banking

The Fable of the Cats

George Selgin/July 6, 2021July 16, 2021 /12 Comments

The comparison has by now been made so often that it may qualify as a platitude. I mean that between stablecoin issuers and "wildcat" banks, the fly-by-night scams that supposedly flooded the antebellum United States...

Joshua Greenberg on Antebellum Paper Money

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

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

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

A Primer on Inflation

James Dorn/July 22, 2021July 21, 2021 /20 Comments

Everyone is talking about inflation, but what is it? Why does it matter? What causes it? And what can the Federal Reserve do about it? This primer will address those questions with the goal of...

Carola Binder on Technopopulism and Central Banks

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

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

Economic Thought

A Primer on Inflation

James Dorn/July 22, 2021July 21, 2021 /20 Comments

Everyone is talking about inflation, but what is it? Why does it matter? What causes it? And what can the Federal Reserve do about it? This primer will address those questions with the goal of...

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 /5 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

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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.