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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 billion, there has been much celebration among Bitcoin holders about their success…

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FedAccounts
Fiat Money, Financial Innovation, Money & Politics, News, The Fed & Central Banks

E Pluribus, Unum? Federal Reserve Provision of Retail Accounts

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

This is the third and final essay in my series on proposals to help reduce the number of unbanked households in America. In my prior essays, I examined the history of the postal savings system between 1910 and 1966, and I evaluated present-day calls to allow the…

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The Fed might be warming up to NGDPLT in the eyes of some, but George Selgin says otherwise.
Events, Fiat Money, Money & Politics, News, Recommended Reading, The Fed & Central Banks

Is the Fed Getting Warmer?

George Selgin/September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 /9 Comments

Relax: the Fed isn't about to catch fire or melt. This isn't about that sort of warming. It's about a different, more benign sort of Fed warming that my pals at the Mercatus Center claim to have discerned. Still, I don't believe them. Call me a Fed…

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The steps forward
Currency Boards, Fiat Money, Money & Politics, News

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 breakdown is due in large part to chaos in Lebanon's monetary and…

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Where have all the coins gone?
Commodity Money, Economic History, Fiat Money, Money & Politics, News

Where Have All the Coins Gone?

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

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert," the economist Milton Friedman once quipped, "in five years there'd be a shortage of sand." The U.S. Mint, to its credit, had a much longer run. The Federal Reserve, which purchases coins from the Mint…

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