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Was the Housing Bailout Good Business for the Taxpayer?

Diego Zuluaga/September 19, 2019September 20, 2019 /1 Comment

Earlier this month, the Department of the Treasury released its long-awaited housing finance reform plan, which focused mainly on the two government-sponsored enterprises,...

Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian

Amanda Griffiths/September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 /Leave a comment

Inside America's Worst Financial Crisis: Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed

Amanda Griffiths/September 10, 2019September 9, 2019 /2 Comments

Why the Fed Needs a Monetary Rule to Protect Its Independence

James Dorn/September 4, 2019September 11, 2019 /9 Comments

On Targeting the Price of Gold

George Selgin/August 29, 2019September 4, 2019 /5 Comments

Was the Housing Bailout Good Business for the Taxpayer?

Diego Zuluaga/September 19, 2019September 20, 2019 /1 Comment

Earlier this month, the Department of the Treasury released its long-awaited housing finance reform plan, which focused mainly on the two government-sponsored enterprises,...

Why the Fed Needs a Monetary Rule to Protect Its Independence

James Dorn/September 4, 2019September 11, 2019 /9 Comments

How to Flip a Yield Curve

George Selgin/August 19, 2019September 10, 2019 /10 Comments

Fed Watchers Should Keep an Eye on the IOER-SOFR Spread

George Selgin/July 25, 2019September 20, 2019 /3 Comments

A Strong Currency is No Good Reason to Keep Tariffs High

Larry White/July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 /2 Comments

Inside America's Worst Financial Crisis: Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed

Amanda Griffiths/September 10, 2019September 9, 2019 /2 Comments

The Cato Institute's newest book, Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed: Sources of Monetary Disorder, 1922–1938 is out now -- and it's already getting rave reviews for challenging conventional wisdom on the Great...

Why the Fed Needs a Monetary Rule to Protect Its Independence

James Dorn/September 4, 2019September 11, 2019 /9 Comments

On Targeting the Price of Gold

George Selgin/August 29, 2019September 4, 2019 /5 Comments

How to Flip a Yield Curve

George Selgin/August 19, 2019September 10, 2019 /10 Comments

Fed Watchers Should Keep an Eye on the IOER-SOFR Spread

George Selgin/July 25, 2019September 20, 2019 /3 Comments

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, 2017February 28, 2019 /51 Comments

Financial Markets

Was the Housing Bailout Good Business for the Taxpayer?

Diego Zuluaga/September 19, 2019September 20, 2019 /1 Comment

Earlier this month, the Department of the Treasury released its long-awaited housing finance reform plan, which focused mainly on the two government-sponsored enterprises,...

How to Flip a Yield Curve

George Selgin/August 19, 2019September 10, 2019 /10 Comments

Fed Watchers Should Keep an Eye on the IOER-SOFR Spread

George Selgin/July 25, 2019September 20, 2019 /3 Comments

Financial Inclusion: The Cato Summit on Financial Regulation

Amanda Griffiths/June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 /1 Comment

The Fed's Shifting Goalposts

George Selgin/May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 /Leave a comment

Fiat Money

Inside America's Worst Financial Crisis: Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed

Amanda Griffiths/September 10, 2019September 9, 2019 /2 Comments

The Cato Institute's newest book, Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed: Sources of Monetary Disorder, 1922–1938 is out now -- and it's already getting rave reviews for challenging conventional wisdom on the Great...

On Targeting the Price of Gold

George Selgin/August 29, 2019September 4, 2019 /5 Comments

A Gold Standard Does Not Require Interest-Rate Targeting

Larry White/April 18, 2019April 20, 2019 /15 Comments

The Zero Lower Bound is No Reason to Punish Currency Users

Larry White/March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 /5 Comments

Alt-M classics: Herbert Spencer on Currency and Banking

Herbert Spencer/June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 /3 Comments

Digital Money

Of Libras and Zebras, Part Three

Diego Zuluaga/July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 /Leave a comment

What Are the True Financial Risks of the Facebook-Led Digital Currency? (Part III: National Security Risk) At yesterday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing on Libra, the digital currency project led by Facebook with 27 other partners,...

Of Libras and Zebras, Part Two

Diego Zuluaga/July 16, 2019July 15, 2019 /Leave a comment

Of Libras and Zebras, Part One

Diego Zuluaga/July 11, 2019July 11, 2019 /1 Comment

Libra's Unresolved Puzzles

Larry White/July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 /1 Comment

Efficient "Central Bank Digital Currency" is a Fantasy

Larry White/February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 /5 Comments

Commodity Money

On Targeting the Price of Gold

George Selgin/August 29, 2019September 4, 2019 /5 Comments

Thanks to President's Trump's picks for prospective Fed Board nominees, the subject of gold price targeting (or a gold "price rule") is getting attention once again. The idea, which got a lot of attention back...

Is There Such a Thing as a Free-Market Gold Standard?

George Selgin/July 9, 2019July 12, 2019 /24 Comments

Fear of a Gold Planet

Larry White/June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 /16 Comments

A Gold Standard Does Not Require Interest-Rate Targeting

Larry White/April 18, 2019April 20, 2019 /15 Comments

Venezuela's Petro: Fool's Oil

Diego Zuluaga/March 23, 2018March 22, 2018 /1 Comment

Free Banking

Friday Flashback: Alexander Hamilton, Banking Mercantilist

Larry White/February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 /3 Comments

(Originally appeared on Alt-M on December 30, 2015) *** In this past summer’s controversy over whether Alexander Hamilton’s image should be replaced on the $10 bill, outraged commentators made many extravagant claims on behalf of...

$free banking, Canadian free banking, fractional reserve banking, Austrian economics, economic history$

Bob Murphy on Free Banking in Canada

George Selgin/February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 /52 Comments

Announcing Alternative Money University Round Two

Tyler Whirty/January 10, 2019January 9, 2019 /4 Comments

Scottish Banks and the Bank Restriction, 1797-1821, Part 3

George Selgin/November 13, 2018November 14, 2018 /9 Comments

Friday Flashback: The State and 100 Percent Reserve Banking

George Selgin/November 9, 2018November 9, 2018 /27 Comments

Currency Boards

A Strong Currency is No Good Reason to Keep Tariffs High

Larry White/July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 /2 Comments

An interesting debate has arisen in Ecuador during recent weeks over the following proposition advanced by authors at a Quito think tank: a dollarized country shouldn’t reduce its tariffs when the dollar is overvalued relative...

Libra's Unresolved Puzzles

Larry White/July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 /1 Comment

Dollar-Denominated Cryptocurrencies: Flops and Tethered Success

Larry White/April 6, 2017April 5, 2017 /20 Comments

A lot of data, and good-bye

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

Why don't we have that for free banking?

Kurt Schuler/April 12, 2014December 19, 2015 /1 Comment

Inflation & Deflation

Inside America's Worst Financial Crisis: Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed

Amanda Griffiths/September 10, 2019September 9, 2019 /2 Comments

The Cato Institute's newest book, Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed: Sources of Monetary Disorder, 1922–1938 is out now -- and it's already getting rave reviews for challenging conventional wisdom on the Great...

How to Flip a Yield Curve

George Selgin/August 19, 2019September 10, 2019 /10 Comments

Irving Fisher's Search for Stable Money: What We Can Learn

James Dorn/January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 /3 Comments

Donald Trump's Real Influence on Fed Policy

David Beckworth/August 15, 2018August 15, 2018 /5 Comments

Price Level Targeting: A Step in the Right Direction

Tate Lacey/June 12, 2018June 12, 2018 /5 Comments

Economic Thought

Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian

Amanda Griffiths/September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 /Leave a comment

How should central bankers provide aid to struggling financial institutions during a panic? Ask 19th-century economic theorist Walter Bagehot. Or, if you can't do that, ask his biographer: acclaimed author, publisher, and monetary scholar James...

Is There Such a Thing as a Free-Market Gold Standard?

George Selgin/July 9, 2019July 12, 2019 /24 Comments

A Strong Currency is No Good Reason to Keep Tariffs High

Larry White/July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 /2 Comments

Monetary Policy 10 Years after the Crisis—New Issue of the Cato Journal

Amanda Griffiths/May 22, 2019May 25, 2019 /Leave a comment

$free banking, Canadian free banking, fractional reserve banking, Austrian economics, economic history$

Bob Murphy on Free Banking in Canada

George Selgin/February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 /52 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.