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Friday Flashback: We Are All Free Banking Theorists Now*

George Selgin/February 2, 2018February 3, 2018 /32 Comments

(Originally appeared December 7, 2014) (*And we always have been.) *** Yesterday, while giving Cato's interns an impromptu talk about my work, I found myself saying something that seems worth putting in writing. This was that the difference between me and Larry White and Kevin Dowd, among…

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Wanted: Students of Monetary Economics

Tyler Whirty/January 9, 2018January 24, 2018 /3 Comments

The Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute is pleased to announce the inaugural offering of Alternative Money University — a 3-day academic workshop for students interested in monetary economics. A decade since the disruptive 2008 financial crisis, it is more important than ever for…