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Volatility in the news

Kurt Schuler/January 26, 2012June 19, 2022 /3 Comments

Larry Summers had op-eds in the Financial Times and the Washington Post this week with essentially the same message. (Well played, Larry: apparently the Post’s editors do not read the Financial Times. It would not hurt them to start.) In both, he used the line, “Government has…

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Commodity Money, Events, Recommended Reading

Making the Transition to a New Gold Standard

Larry White/December 22, 2011June 19, 2022 /27 Comments

Presented at the Cato Institute Annual Monetary Conference, 16 November 2011 Suppose for the sake of argument that we all agree to the following proposition: If we could change the monetary regime with zero switching cost, merely by snapping our fingers, we would prefer the US to…

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Events, Free Banking, Recommended Reading

Advertisements for Myself

George Selgin/August 30, 2011June 19, 2022 /19 Comments

For a couple of my books, actually, which have recently become available in new editions. Good old Liberty Fund has made a Kindle version of The Theory of Free Banking, which you can download for free from its Online Library of Liberty. And my pals at the…

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Economic History, Free Banking, Recommended Reading

What's old (and some classics)

Kurt Schuler/May 20, 2011June 19, 2022 /5 Comments

Brad asked about the free banking book classics. What I had already planned to write, below, partly answers his question. Current thinking about free banking began with Friedrich Hayek’s 1976 pamphlet Denationalisation of Money (link is to an expanded version first issued in 1978 and reprinted in…

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