Pertinent Category: Sound Money Project

The Sound Money Project was founded in January 2009 to conduct research and promote awareness about monetary stability and financial privacy. The project is comprised of leading academics and practitioners in money, banking, and macroeconomics. It offers regular commentary and in-depth analysis on monetary policy, alternative monetary systems, financial markets regulation, cryptocurrencies, and the history of monetary and macroeconomic thought. For the latest on sound money issues, subscribe to our working paper series and follow along on Twitter or Facebook.

Advisory Board: Steve H. Hanke, Jerry L. Jordan, Lawrence H. White
Director: William J. Luther
Senior Fellows: Nicolás Cachanosky, Gerald P. DwyerJoshua R. Hendrickson, Thomas L. Hogan, Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr., Alexander W. Salter
Fellows: J.P. Koning

“The Dynamics of Chronic Inflation in Brazil, 1968-1985”

– September 29, 2010

“This article develops an error-correction model with the aim of analyzing the behavior of prices during a period of chronic inflation in Brazil. The degree of inflationary inertia is estimated, and tests for the importance of disequilibria in the dome …

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“Does Inequality Cause Inflation? The Political Economy of Inflation, Taxation and Government Debt”

– September 29, 2010

“The optimal revenue mix is tilted more towards seigniorage if the ruling political party has less of a dislike for inflation, if the costs of collecting taxes are high and the extent of tax evasion is widespread (cf. Canzoneri and Rogers, 1990), and i …

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“The Lag in Effect of Monetary Policy”

– September 29, 2010

“First, discretionary policy at times tends to be dominated by goals other than, and even contradictory to, stabilization (for example, pegging bonds yields, halting gold outflows), whereas the automatic framework cannot be so readily exploited for oth …

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Russia – “Inflation Could Trip New Exchange-rate Crisis”

– September 28, 2010

“This happy outcome was a result of serious efforts by the Finance Ministry to contain budget expenditure and by the Central Bank to restrain excessive monetary growth. Inflation control became the most important priority for the government because, ap …

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Here Today, Keynes Tomorrow

– September 27, 2010

“Keynesian ideas seem to pop up time and time again, especially in times of crisis. Keynes himself even sensed the impact his theories were going to have. When Keynes was writing the General Theory he wrote to George Bernard Shaw in 1935, “…you have to …

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“Thomas Hoenig is Fed Up”

– September 24, 2010

“This is Tom Hoenig’s moment, and it’s a strange one. In Washington, he is the burr in Fed Chairman Bernanke’s saddle: the rogue heartland banker who keeps dissenting alone—for the sixth straight time on Sept. 21—to protest the Fed’s rock-bottom intere …

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Cato Institute’s 28th Annual Monetary Conference on Nov. 18

– September 24, 2010

Our friends over at the Cato Institute will be hosting their 28th Annual Monetary Conference on November 18. Cato’s 28th Annual Monetary Conference — Asset Bubbles and Monetary Policy — will address a key issue underlying the 2008 financial crisis: Did …

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“Gold Miners Gain on Fed’s Latest Views”

– September 23, 2010

“Miners such as Newmont (NEM) and Silver Wheaton (SLW) galloped to new highs on Wednesday, as gold prices reached another new peak in the wake of the Fed’s latest comments. The Federal Reserve on Tuesday indicated that it was prepared to pump fresh cas …

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Commitment

– September 22, 2010

“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” – Unknown Today’s Atlas Liberty Café fe …

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“Repudiate the National Debt”

– September 22, 2010

“In the spring of 1981, conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives cried. They cried because, in the first flush of the Reagan Revolution that was supposed to bring drastic cuts in taxes and government spending, as well as a balanced budg …

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Art Carden to Speak at Rhodes College, Nov. 17

– September 22, 2010

The Sound Money project of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation will be sponsoring a lecture on “The Importance of Sound Money” by Dr. Art Carden at Rhodes College on November 17, 2010. “The Importance of Sound Money” Dr. Art Carden Wednesday, Novemb …

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Devaluing the Dollar

– September 21, 2010

“The historical episodes of hyperinflation that we know of consisted of rapidly falling money demand alongside rapidly rising money supply. In general terms, what tends to happen is that after many years of persistently high monetary inflation, people …

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