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Banking Regulation, Commodity Money, Currency Boards, Digital Money, Economic History, Events, Free Banking, Inflation & Deflation, Money & Politics, News, The Fed & Central Banks

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

Amanda Griffiths/December 19, 2019June 19, 2022

From President Trump lobbing invectives against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Twitter to progressives clamoring for the Federal Reserve to use monetary policy to finance social projects, our central bank’s independence looks increasingly tenuous. Recently, Chairman Powell called for an internal "strategic review" of how…

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Banking Regulation, Booms & Busts, Economic Thought, Free Banking, Money & Politics, News

Warren Mosler and the Great American Banking Myth

George Selgin/December 3, 2019June 19, 2022

Yesterday morning, a Modern Monetary Theorist tweeted part of a 2017 interview he did with Warren Mosler, one of that school's leading proponents and benefactors. As the clip was titled "Against Free Banking: The Liability Side Isn't The Place For Market Discipline," yours truly couldn't resist a…

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Economic History, Free Banking, The Fed & Central Banks

Friday Flashback: Alexander Hamilton, Banking Mercantilist

Larry White/February 22, 2019June 19, 2022

(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 Hamilton’s wisdom in matters of money and banking policy. For example, Ben…

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Economic History, Economic Thought, Free Banking

Bob Murphy on Free Banking in Canada

George Selgin/February 12, 2019June 19, 2022

A few months after my April 2018 Soho debate with him concerning whether fractional reserve banking is damaging to an economy's health, Bob Murphy gave a lecture on "Rothbardians vs. 'Free Bankers' on Fractional Reserve Banking." Bob devotes a substantial chunk of that lecture to elaborating upon…

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Economic History, Economic Thought, Free Banking, The Fed & Central Banks

Announcing Alternative Money University Round Two

Tyler Whirty/January 10, 2019June 19, 2022

After a successful inaugural offering in 2018, the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute is pleased to announce that Alternative Money University – our 3-day academic workshop for students interested in monetary economics – is coming back in July 2019. As followers of…