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“Free bankers have been fighting a war on two fronts. On one they face champions of central banking and managed money. On the other they struggle against advocates of 100-percent reserve banking. Although the second front is a lot smaller than the firs …
READ MOREThe problem of bank runs is probably the most serious concern in monetary economics. It is clear that if all clients claim back their depositors together the bank will fail. This situation, it is argued, puts the banks in an unstable position where the …
READ MORELast Tuesday ATLAS’ Sound Money Project held a panel with the title of “Making the Case for Sound Money” at the 2011 APEE Conference. Jorge Borlandelli from The Nassau Institute, myself from Suffolk University, Tom Duncan from GMU/Sound Money Project a …
READ MOREThe discussion in monetary institutions is becoming increasingly relevant in economics. How to deal and avoid financial crisis is an important issue. The recent financial crisis showed that economics might not be as suited to foresee and deal with thes …
READ MORELarry White gives a lecture on the benefits of Free Banking and the Gold Standard at the Cato Monetary Conference in November, 2010. Watch it here. Larry White on Free Banking and Gold Sheldon Richman Anything Peaceful, March 8, 2011. Via the Foundat …
READ MOREAn important aspect of the study of sound money is to correctly identify historical cases of free markets in money and banking versus regulated markets in money and banking. If we cannot correctly separate one from another then our conclusions will ine …
READ MOREIn The Theory of Free Banking (1988), George Selgin offers a monetary reform proposal to go from the actual monetary system based on a monopolistic control of money to a competitive banking system (pp. 164-172). There are different reasons (economic, i …
READ MOREIs the world economy in crisis because it lacks the fundamentals of sound money? If you believe that sound money is the key to our recovery, tell us why. Join Atlas’s 2nd Annual Sound Money Essay Contest and win cash prizes. This year’s theme is …
READ MOREOn Wednesday, November 10, Sound Money held a panel at annual Liberty Forum hosted by Atlas. The panel featured Judy Shelton, Sean Fieler and Steven Horwitz, with Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks acting as moderator. Perhaps it is a bit self-serving to say t …
READ MORE“Despite the overwhelming evidence that markets perform best when left alone by the government, it is still virtually taken for granted that one consumer product should be completely controlled by every government in the world. One product, so ubiquito …
READ MORE“But if the problem isn’t in the application of the system, but it is the system, then all efforts to reform practice will fail, and fail miserably. This is what we believe the logic of economic argument leads one to conclude about central banking and …
READ MOREIn the battle of ideologies, the libertarian always faces certain disadvantages. The foundation is, as the name implies, liberty. Yet there is no strict use towards which “liberty” can be put. It is a somewhat amorphous idea, and context changes its me …
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