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Where was the Tom Woods Show when Hayek Needed It?

George Selgin/March 20, 2015June 19, 2022

This morning Justin Merill alerted me, via Facebook, to a recent episode of The Tom Woods Show titled “Against Market Monetarism and NGDP Targeting.” The episode consists of an interview with Austrian monetary economist Joe Salerno, in which Salerno takes issue with Market Monetarists and, especially, with…

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Keynes to FDR: Forget Quantitative Easing

George Selgin/November 4, 2014June 19, 2022

From Keynes' "Open Letter to President Roosevelt," published December 16, 1933: "Rising output and rising incomes will suffer a set-back sooner or later if the quantity of money is rigidly fixed. Some people seem to infer from this that output and income can be raised by increasing…

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