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, Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr., Lawrence H. White
Director: William J. Luther
Senior Fellows: Gerald P. Dwyer, Joshua R. Hendrickson, Nicolás Cachanosky, Alexander W. Salter, Thomas L. Hogan
Fellows: James L. Caton, J.P. Koning
The Thin Green Line
“The Fed has again taken unprecedented action to respond to a crisis. Unfortunately, it has gone further towards erasing the separating monetary and fiscal policy, to the detriment of both.” ~ Scott Burns
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R.I.P. Richard H. Timberlake
“Timberlake provided a blueprint for future sound money scholars to conduct thorough and well-respected research on monetary theory and history.” ~ Scott Burns
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Powell Admits that the Fed’s Actions Vastly Exceed Its Mandate
“Powell admits what’s happening now is outside the Fed’s purview. And, yet, the Fed is doing more than ever.” ~ Alexander Salter
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The Fed is Failing, Again
The Fed has refused to do the sensible thing. Rather than focusing on monetary stability, it has embarked on a host of misguided experiments that threaten the long-run integrity of markets.
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Negative Interest Rates: A Free Market Phenomenon
Negative interest rates are not unnatural. They are a regular phenomenon in unregulated free markets.
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Stay-at-Home Orders and the Willingness to Stay Home
It has become common, in times of crisis, to ask: what will the government do to fix this? And there is certainly a lot that state and federal governments can do. The lesson I hope we will learn from this pandemic, however, is that there is much that can be accomplished locally as well.
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Even In a Crisis, Student Loan Forgiveness Is Bad Policy
We should help those who are struggling right now. And we should do so quickly. Student loan debt forgiveness does not do that very much or very well.
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How the Fed’s COVID-19 Response Undermines Federalism
We should do everything we can to make sure City Hall and the state capital are more responsive to the voices of ordinary citizens in their jurisdictions than the whims of central bankers.
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Inflation and Coronavirus Monetary Policies
Not knowing the relationship between monetary policy and inflation is a risky way to conduct monetary policy. Maybe everything will work out fine; maybe not.
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Beware a Second-Wave Attack on Liberty
To move on, the spread must occur. If we employ smart policy, we will allow the virus to spread among the young and shelter our old. We must encourage those with preexisting conditions – hypertension, heart disease, and so forth – to isolate in order to avoid contracting the virus.
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To Avoid Permanent Leviathan, People Must Reclaim their Rights
There is a risk that whatever justified measures governments are taking because of the pandemic outbreak will remain as unjustified powers once the pandemic crisis is over.
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What Is Essential Is Subjective
Part of the argument for shutting down “inessential” activities is that it is better to have fewer people going to work. This may have been a plausible argument while “flattening the curve.” It misses an important problem beyond that time frame.
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