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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…

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Free Banking, Money & Politics, The Fed & Central Banks

Friday Flashback: We Are All Free Banking Theorists Now*

George Selgin/February 2, 2018June 19, 2022

(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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Economic History, Events, The Fed & Central Banks

Wanted: Students of Monetary Economics

Tyler Whirty/January 9, 2018June 19, 2022

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…

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Welcome to Alt-M, a community devoted to exploring and promoting ideas for an alternative monetary future. Our goal is to reveal the shortcomings of today’s centralized, bureaucratic, and discretionary monetary arrangements, and to bring serious consideration of real alternatives to the center stage of current monetary and financial reform debates.

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