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A Prescient Fed Critic

George Selgin/September 5, 2015June 19, 2022

If I haven't been posting much lately, it's because I'm working on a paper about the 1908-12 National Monetary Commission, and have been up to my neck in research concerning it.  As that commission supplies a precedent for the Centennial Monetary Commission plan that's presently wending its…

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