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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 …
READ MORE“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 …
READ MORE“Gold prices were continuing their climb to $1,300 an ounce as investors bet on the Federal Reserve announcing another round of quantitative easing on Tuesday. If the Fed decides to buy more government bonds and expand the size of its balance sheet, it …
READ MORE“The intentionally limited task to which I intend to devote myself in the following pages is that of writing a critical history of the theoretical problem of interest. I shall endeavour to set down in their historical development the scientific efforts …
READ MORE“We all know what notes and coins are. They allow us to exchange the fruits of our work for the goods of others. When we deposit cash in Bank A – say £100 – we lend this money to the bank. But as soon as you make a deposit it becomes the bank’s. They t …
READ MOREBy Desmond Lachman AEI Online Tuesday, September 14, 2010 “The outbreak of a sovereign-debt crisis in the eurozone’s peripheral economies has been among the more important developments in the global economy in 2010. Sadly, this crisis will likely inten …
READ MOREBy GEORGE P. SHULTZ, MICHAEL J. BOSKIN, JOHN F. COGAN, ALLAN MELTZER AND JOHN B. TAYLOR America’s financial crisis, deep recession and anemic recovery have largely been driven by economic policies that have deviated from proven fact-based principles. T …
READ MOREBy Alan Reynolds — Alternative monetary systems cannot be evaluated in isolation, but only in comparison with other arrangements. The question “why gold?” thus divides into two other questions. The first is “compared to what?” The second is “why not?” …
READ MOREBy John D. Mueller POLITICAL ECONOMY The Wall Street Journal Publication Date: September 4, 1986 Since 1971 the world has suffered two great inflations and three recessions. Hopes for a world-wide economic expansion have been interrupted once again, …
READ MORE“Like a river suddenly swollen by the collapse of an upstream dam, the ideological current becomes bloated by the public’s fear and apprehension of impending dangers and its heightened uncertainty about future developments. Bewildered people turn to th …
READ MOREBy Luis Tellez — Increasingly obvious perils of government debt have given rise to public concern, and even alarm. Though some people argue the alarm is exaggerated, there is a growing segment of the population that is thinking long and hard about the …
READ MOREBy SEAN FIELER AND JEFFREY BELL Washington’s elites are quietly preparing a post-election fiscal compromise that will fund much of President Barack Obama’s domestic spending agenda with huge tax increases. They aim to create a value-added tax and will …
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