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Definitely Not "Ben Bernanke's Blog"

George Selgin/April 2, 2015June 19, 2022 /4 Comments

 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…

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Rebooting Freebanking.org

Bradley Jansen/April 2, 2015June 19, 2022 /3 Comments

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…

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Where was the Tom Woods Show when Hayek Needed It?

George Selgin/March 20, 2015June 19, 2022 /50 Comments

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…

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