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Friday Flashback: A Free Banker's Christmas Wish List

George Selgin/December 22, 2017June 19, 2022

(Originally appeared  December 21, 2014) As is usual this time of year, my mom and brother, and a close friend or two, asked me to share with them some of the items I'd included in the list they assumed I'd already mailed to the North Pole, as…

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Fed Officials Endorse Monetary Commission!

George Selgin/August 27, 2015June 19, 2022

You heard it here first. According to a report I have before me, straight from the U.S. Senate, prominent Federal Reserve officials, including the presidents of the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Philadelphia, have publicly endorsed legislation that would establish a bipartisan Monetary Commission authorized…

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