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Capital Unbound: The Cato Summit on Financial Regulation

Mark Calabria/May 8, 2015June 19, 2022

Interested in how to advance economic growth?  Join the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives in New York on June 2nd for a day examining the current state of U.S. capital markets regulation at Capital Unbound: The Cato Summit on Financial Regulation. We've assembled an…

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flood of commentary
News, The Fed & Central Banks

None of the Fed's Business

George Selgin/April 30, 2015June 19, 2022

The latest Commerce Department report and FOMC press release have, as usual, led to a flood of commentary concerning the various economic indicators that the Fed committee must have mulled over in reaching its decision to put off somewhat longer its plan to start selling off assets it…

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Commodity Money, Economic History, Fiat Money, Money & Politics

Monetary Standards: An Introduction

Gerald P O'Driscoll/April 10, 2015June 19, 2022

A monetary standard is a set of institutions and rules governing the supply of money in an economy. These rules and institutions collectively constrain the production of money. Through its constraints on money creation, the standard indirectly acts on prices. A monetary standard may also affect the…

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Digital Money, Events, The Fed & Central Banks

Money, Economic Growth, and the Fed

George Selgin/December 3, 2014June 19, 2022

That's the title of my contribution to Cato's online forum on "Reviving Economic Growth." The forum anticipates a conference on "The Future of U.S. Economic Growth" being held at Cato all day tomorrow. My forum piece is an edited version of a somewhat longer paper I plan…

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