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Lawrence White on Private Gold Mints

George Selgin/March 19, 2021June 19, 2022

Every hoary myth about the private market's unfitness to supply means of exchange has roots that trace back to the hoariest monetary platitude of all, namely, the claim that governments alone, whether republican or absolutist or otherwise, are fit to coin money. That commonplace credendum dates from…

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The Private Mint In Economics: Evidence from American Gold Rushes (CMFA Working Paper No. 003)

The CMFA Working Paper Series/March 17, 2021June 19, 2022

 

Where have all the coins gone?
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Where Have All the Coins Gone?

Will Luther/July 10, 2020June 19, 2022

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert,” the economist Milton Friedman once quipped, “in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” The U.S. Mint, to its credit, had a much longer run. The Federal Reserve, which purchases coins from the Mint…

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