Judy Shelton Archives

gold standard, commodity prices, inflation, volatility, Stephen Moore, Herman Cain, Jerome Powell, Judy Shelton

Commodity Money, Fiat Money, News, The Fed & Central Banks

On Targeting the Price of Gold

George Selgin/August 29, 2019January 2, 2020 /5 Comments

Thanks to President's Trump's picks for prospective Fed Board nominees, the subject of gold price targeting (or a gold "price rule") is getting attention once again. The idea, which got a lot of attention back in the 1980s, after Arthur Laffer and other supply-siders, including Alan Reynolds,…

Alan Greenspan, Judy Shelton, Federal Reserve, Gold Standard

Commodity Money, News, The Fed & Central Banks

Fear of a Gold Planet

Larry White/June 4, 2019January 2, 2020 /16 Comments

Proposed nominees Stephen Moore and Herman Cain having dropped out of contention, discussion continues over the Trump administration's possible next nomination to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. The views of the latest candidate under consideration by the administration, Judy Shelton, have revived a question that commentators…

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Ideas for an Alternative Monetary Future

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Ideas for an Alternative Monetary Future

Judy Shelton

On Targeting the Price of Gold

Fear of a Gold Planet