Articles by Alex Chafuen
2014 Sound Money Rankings: the bottom of the list
As several of the worse performing currencies are in countries where the government manipulates statistics and exchange rates, it is not easy to come up with a perfect ranking. Using the inflation rate is a good approximation. In Venezuela the official …
Greenspan back to gold? Peter Schiff reports
Peter Schiff writes “A couple weeks ago, we reported on Alan Greenspan’s prediction that the price of gold would rise. He said this at the New Orleans Investment Conference. In an interview at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) the next week, Green …
Atlas Sound Money Project team participates at Cato 2014 Monetary conference.
Most of the team of the Atlas Sound Money Project attended the Cato Institute Monetary Conference. Dr. Judy Shelton, co-director of the project spoke on “Building an Orderly and Ethical International Monetary System,” Senior fellow, Dr. Jerry L. Jordan …
Wall Street Journal describes the new Cato Institute effort to promote sound money
The Wall Street Journal blog reports that Cato’s new Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives will have as a goal to “challenge the central bank’s policies and explore alternative ways to manage the U.S. money supply, including but not limited to …
New Book on Sound Money by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames
In a recent piece in Forbes.com, contributor Mark Hendrickson writes “one of my favorite passages in “MONEY” was when the authors drew an ironic contrast between the fate of John Law, who had to flee France in disgrace after his ruinous paper money sch …
