Skip to content

Alt-M

Ideas for an Alternative Monetary Future

Alt-M

Ideas for an Alternative Monetary Future

  • Home
  • Contributors
    • George Selgin
    • Larry White
    • James Dorn
    • Jennifer Schulp
    • Norbert Michel
  • Primer
  • Working Paper Series

financial intermediation

Money & Politics, News, The Fed & Central Banks

A Rejoinder to Andolfatto

Larry White/March 3, 2017June 19, 2022

David Andolfatto has thoughtfully replied to my critique of his "A public finance case for keeping the Fed's balance sheet large.” Here I respond to his reply (despite his Twitter plea to me not to!). I thank him for taking the time to address my criticisms. I…

Continue reading
Booms & Busts, Recommended Reading, The Fed & Central Banks

Interest on Reserves and the Fed's Balance Sheet

George Selgin/May 17, 2016June 19, 2022

(Recently I was invited to testify on the title subject, along with Robert  Eisenbeis, Todd Keister, and John Taylor, before the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade.  The topic is, as loyal Alt-M readers know, one that I have plenty to say about….

Continue reading
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…

Continue reading

Follow

Print

Subscribe


Contributors

  • Larry White
  • Norbert Michel
  • James Dorn
  • Jennifer Schulp
  • Hu McCulloch
  • George Selgin

Categories

  • Banking Regulation (124)
  • Booms & Busts (57)
  • Commodity Money (80)
  • Currency Boards (19)
  • Digital Money (99)
  • Economic History (206)
  • Economic Thought (166)
  • Events (60)
  • Fiat Money (81)
  • Financial Innovation (50)
  • Financial Markets (138)
  • Free Banking (211)
  • Inflation & Deflation (86)
  • Legal Analysis (3)
  • Monetary Policy Primer (12)
  • Money & Politics (334)
  • News (258)
  • Recommended Reading (99)
  • Securities Regulation (7)
  • The Fed & Central Banks (381)
  • Uncategorized (11)
  • Working Papers (7)

Recent Posts

  • The New Deal and Recovery, Part 22: Postwar Monetary Policy
  • Diamond and Dybvig and the Panic of 1907
  • Diamond, Dybvig, and Government Deposit Insurance
  • Bank and Crypto Runs: F(ac)TX vs Fiction
  • The New Deal and Recovery, Part 21: Happy Days
  • Stop Lionizing Paul Volcker and Villainizing Arthur Burns
  • How Common Has Private Currency Been?

About Us

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.

Sponsors

Liberty and Privacy Network
This work by the Cato Institute and the Liberty and Privacy Network is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
DMCA | Privacy Policy
top