The latest Commerce Department report and FOMC press release have, as usual, led to a flood of commentary concerning the various economic indicators that the Fed committee must have mulled over in reaching its decision to put off somewhat longer its plan to start selling off assets it…
Darn: beaten to the punch! Thanks to those capricious Gods of all-things-internet, this new blog–a joint project of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights–makes its first appearance rather later than we intended, and (wouldn't you…
We've got exciting news for the blog! For several years before the start of freebanking.org, I had been frustrated by how difficult it was for people seriously interested in monetary policy and the Federal Reserve to find good information and debate. Part of the problem was that…
This morning Justin Merill alerted me, via Facebook, to a recent episode of The Tom Woods Show titled "Against Market Monetarism and NGDP Targeting." The episode consists of an interview with Austrian monetary economist Joe Salerno, in which Salerno takes issue with Market Monetarists and, especially, with…